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Friday, August 30, 2013

8-30-13 Jersey Jazzman: When Will the Charter Industry Finally Be Honest?

Jersey Jazzman: When Will the Charter Industry Finally Be Honest?:





When Will the Charter Industry Finally Be Honest?
If you're shocked by this, you haven't been paying attention: The parent of a special education kindergarten pupil at the Upper West Side Success Academy charter school secretly tape recorded meetings in which school administrators pressed her to transfer her son back into the public school system.  The tapes, a copy of which the mother supplied the Daily News, poke a hole in claims by the fast-



8-28-13 Jersey Jazzman
Jersey Jazzman: Newark's Teachers Get Screwed on Merit PayThe editorial board of the Wall St. Journal may be clinically insane, but Lisa Fleisher at the education desk is paying attention to important stuff: Newark, in a first for a large New Jersey public-school system, has given out bonuses of up to $12,500 to its highest-rated teachers, inaugurating a controversial merit-pay program being watch