6-14-14 Jersey Jazzman NJ Ed News Round-up Jammin' All Week
Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All Week
UPDATED: Charter School Reality: TN Edition
UPDATE BELOWOK, look...I am not "anti-charter school." I started my career in a charter. I think there is a good case to be made for some -- some -- level of charter proliferation in many communities. I certainly don't think I ought to be telling people in other cities and towns that they shouldn't be able to decide for themselves how much "choice" they want in their district.I
JUN 17
Teachers & Students Ask: Will @GovChristie's Office Be Air-Conditioned This Week?
It was hot in Central Jersey today, and it looks like most of the state will be in the 90's tomorrow. This heat is potentially dangerous: an advisory is in effect until tomorrow night all through South Jersey. The National Weather Service says:A HEAT ADVISORY MEANS THAT A PERIOD OF HOT TEMPERATURES IS EXPECTED. THE COMBINATION OF HOT TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL COMBINE TO CREATE A SITUATIO
JUN 16
The @starledger's Reformy Fantasyland
I really can't tell you how grateful I am to have Bob Braun blogging; for a while there, it felt like I was the only one who cared to point out that the Star-Ledger, Bob's former paper, was writing education editorials that were both massively ignorant and callously dismissive of the needs of children in New Jersey's cities.Bob's skewering of the Star-Ledger Editorial Board (SLEB) includes a histo
JUN 14
If You Don't Know Much About Education, Don't Write About It
I spend most of my time on this blog writing about education. Why? Because I'm a teacher and a student of education policy, so I have informed opinions about the subject.I don't spend a lot of time writing about venture capitalism and the tech sector. Why? Because I don't know much about it.I wish the Silicon Valley-types who are trying to take away teacher tenure would pay the same sort of courte
Sweeney–Christie wannabe–practices bullying on Rutgers.
What sort of state allows a barely literate thug like Steve Sweeney–with aspirations to the governorship–to intimidate, browbeat and extort a nationally respected institution like Rutgers University? The same state, I guess, that allows Chris Christie, a clownish, dancing governor–dancing just one step ahead of the sheriff–to fly to New Hampshire in the middle of […]
JUN 18
Mayor-elect Baraka says “cooler heads will prevail” and Cami Anderson will leave Newark
Newark’s mayor-elect, Ras Baraka, said he is still determined to remove state-imposed schools superintendent Cami Anderson—and he believes state Education Commissioner David Hespe will help him do it. “Ultimately, if she was smart she would just leave on her own,” Baraka said in an interview. “And if she really cared about the […]
JUN 16
History repeats itself: First, as tragedy. Second, as farce. Third, as a Star-Ledger editorial.
New Jersey’s largest newspaper unsurprisingly endorsed the absurd finding of a California judge that employment protections for school employees cause school failure and constitute, therefore, a violation of the U.S. Constitution. It is a continuation of the newspaper’s jihad against public employees who have the audacity to assert their human rights in the face of management […]
JUN 15
Did Cami lose–or is she just lying again?
Cami Anderson, the state-imposed Newark school superintendent, can be beaten and already has lost a major battle in her drive to privatize Newark schools to help her friends in the charter school industry. That’s what parent leaders at the Hawthorne Avenue school are saying in response to a letter from Anderson saying the school will not be […]
More ways to create 100 excellent schools in Newark
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how to really create 100 excellent schools in Newark as opposed to Superintendent Cami Anderson's One Newark plan which involves closing schools, expanding charters, firing staff and disrupting neighborhoods. I listed 20, and asked readers to submit more. After incorporating your suggestions in an initial update, I realized that if we are going to get to 100, it