Laura Waters

Chris Cerf, New Jersey’s Education Commissioner for the last three years, has left in a huff. He was out the door anyway but memori ...

“All is flux, nothing stays still,” said Plato, but you’d never know that in Camden. It’s still the worst school ...

On Tuesday a gloomy Chris Christie donned a hair shirt instead of a fleece jacket and proffered his 2015 fiscal-year budget sermon to Sta ...

Last week New Jersey Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf announced that ...

Fort Lee is no longer on gridlock alert, but suddenly New Jersey’s efforts towards education reform are stalled. Shall we review? & ...

If brevity is the soul of wit, then New Jersey’s School Performance Reports are funereal. Just two years ago the N.J. Department of ...

This is not Jersey’s best week. Revelations from Bridgegate, along with the peculiar backroom statecraft that spawned the scandal o ...

Those of you who are not big Chris Christie fans may be forgiven for indulging in a bit of schadenfreude during the Governor’s Stat ...

This morning StudentsFirst, the take-no-prisoners-education reform organization headed by former D.C. Chancellor of Education Michelle Rh ...

Okay, maybe he’s no shrinking violet, but it’s worth taking note that almost exactly two years ago today Christie signed ...

As 2013 rolled to a close this week, the New Jersey State Legislature was busy with a grab bag of last-minute education bills. Call them ...

Did you hear about last Monday’s “ ...