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Monday, June 30, 2014

6-30-14 Jersey Jazzman Jammin'

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Are Miami-Dade's Charter Schools Really "Impressive"?
Picking up where I last left off, let's take a look at some test score results from Miami-Dade, FL and see if the charter schools there -- which are, according to the local press, running wild while making their operators boatloads of money -- are really living up to their hype.For this post, we'll keep it simple (for now): let's leave aside the glaring differences in student populations between t






6-29-14 Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All Week
Jersey Jazzman: The REAL Objection to Adequate School FundingEvery once in a while, the school defunders give away the game:[NJ State Senator Mike] Doherty [R- Tea Party] also brought up what he said was another broken promise from Christie. He said the governor had promised to make equal school funding a key theme of the 2013 campaign, in which all 120 seats in the Legislature were up for grabs.