Laura Waters
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Giving school boards more say on approving charters is a bad idea
Last week Assemblyman Troy Singleton (D-Camden) released a bill that updates New Jersey’s 20-year-old charter school law. The ...
11 years ago
School reform efforts in Newark offer lessons for Camden
If Newark Public Schools is a metric for the strength of the education reform movement in New Jersey, call us anemic. Wednesday lo ...
11 years ago
Unions score victories in mayoral elections but this won’t stop education reform in N.J.
Among various New Jersey elections yesterday, Newark and Trenton’s mayoral contests pivoted on concerns about the growing influence ...
11 years ago
Mayoral elections show how school reform is also a debate about labor unions
You know it’s silly season when the big N.J. mayoral election news of the day is that Eva Longoria endorsed Shavar Jeffries for New ...
11 years ago
Did you know Trenton’s next mayor will hand pick the school board?
New Jersey’s mayoral elections are in two weeks and the eyes of the education community are focused on Newark’s contentious r ...
11 years ago
What impact will Trenton’s next mayor have on the city schools?
At the mayoral forum Saturday morning “Setting Trenton’s Education Agenda,” sponsored by the ...
11 years ago
Plan for more charter schools sparks unfair criticism against Camden
Is the opening of more charter schools in Camden City a cause for celebration or legal action? If you ask an organization called ...
11 years ago
Separating special education students from classrooms is wrong and expensive
Johnny Falotico, a teenager from Berkeley County in Ocean Township, has multiple disabilities that inhibit his ability to learn, swallow, ...
11 years ago
Charter schools in New Jersey get way less than you think
The world is full of mysteries and one of them is the way that New Jersey funds charter schools. It should be straight math, right? Not s ...
11 years ago
New Jersey is having second thoughts on superintendent salary caps
In 2011, Governor Christie’s administration issued salary ...
11 years ago
N.J. should end its segregation of special needs students
Last month a federal court ruled that New Jersey’s public school system unlawfully segregates children with disabilities in isolate ...
11 years ago
What Newark can learn from Camden when it comes to charter schools
Everyone’s talking about the political upheaval in Newark as Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries fight for mayoral control of New Jersey ...
11 years ago