The Opportunity Scholarship Act would be funded directly from public school budgets.
The Truth-O-Meter Says: “(The Opportunity Scholarship Act) would be funded directly from public school budgets. So it would absolutely…
Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools
Lance Murphey for The New York Times Nearly 60 percent of its students are behind grade level in math….
State rejects Online Charter School
BY HOWARD PROSNITZ, STAFF WRITER Teaneck Suburbanite TEANECK – The Department of Education has rejected an application for an…
Administration Reveals Which Charters Have Made the First Cut
More than half the applications weeded out, at least for now By John Mooney With every detail of its…
Newark’s First Foray into Teacher Evaluation Pilot, with Teachers Front and Center
[…] Newark is one of 11 districts in the state piloting a controversial plan led by Gov. Chris Christie…
Braun: New kind of N.J. school privatization on the rise
By Bob Braun/Star-Ledger Columnist Robert Sciarrino/The Star-LedgerActing Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf, right, listens as Gov. Chris Christie speaks in…
Slow Down the School Reform Factory
Mechanistically linking test scores to teacher evaluations means trouble not accountability By Gordon MacInnes Reformers look on education as…
Growing Push in Newark to Retake School Reins
By WINNIE HU NEWARK — For a generation of Newark students, every education decision, including choices on curriculum, spending…
‘We wuz wrong again?’
When it comes to providing financial information to the U.S. Department of Education, New Jersey doesn’t seem to have,…
20 protest online charter plan
BY MELISSA HAYES, STAFF WRITER The Record TEANECK — Chanting “We want a say in what we pay,” about…
In Post-Rhee DC, Achievement Gaps Remain Staggeringly Wide
On Sunday, the New York Times published an op-ed critical of school choice policies in Washington, DC. As Matt…
Has Teacher Quality Really Declined Over Time?
Matthew Di Carlo One of the common assumptions lurking in the background of our education debates is that “quality”…
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