Alternative High School Assessment Reveals New Jersey’s “Big Lie” on Education Quality and Graduation Rate

April 28, 2010 Massive Failure of Alternate Assessment Reveals Fundamental Problems with State’s K-12 System, Enormous Fraud Perpetrated on Students Newark, NJ — April 28, 2010 — Preliminary results for the Alternative High School Assessment (AHSA), the successor for the much-maligned Special Review Assessment (SRA)–a test given to students who failed the state’s standard exit [...]

AHSA , Derrell Bradford , failure , Graduation-Rate , NJEA , Rev.-Reginald-Jackson , SRA , The Black Minister's Council of New Jersey

N.J. diploma scam revealed by stunning new test results

Commentary When the State Board of Education elected to “reform,” not eliminate, the Special Review Assessment, or SRA, in 2009, I and others who opposed this backdoor route to a diploma were disappointed. The SRA was a running joke. About 13,000 disproportionately minority students annually were using it to graduate after failing one or both [...]

AHSA , Alternate High School Assessment , Derrell Bradford , Diploma Scam , E3 , failure , High School Proficiency Assessment , HSPA , Special Review Assessment , SRA , Test Scores

School funding formula needs fixing

April 7, 2010 The Asbury Park Press Adjustment aid just one part of problem One would believe the world was ending if all you could do was listen to the gnashing of teeth from the state’s educational cartel of late. Whether the cuts in school aid for the upcoming year are 5 percent or zero, [...]

budget , Corzine , Funding , School Funding Formula

A Conference @ Princeton University

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 9 AM The Frist Center, Room 302 @ 74 Washington Rd. (Updated) Directions to the Frist Center can be found HERE Download a Copy of the Conference Program HERE Visitror Parking Available in Lot 21 Email RSVP to conference@nje3.org

Bret Schundler , Conference , E3 , Education Commissioner , Excellent Education for Everyone , Princeton , RSVP

Kids First Campaign on Local Radio

E3 has launched a radio campaign promoting the documentary film The Cartel and letting New Jerseyans know how poorly our children and our taxpayers are being treated by our schools. You can hear the ads below (MP3 Format): The Camden Crackdown The Urban Graduation Scam Less Means More Who Stands for You? If You Build [...]

Camden , Corzine , E3 , Excellent Education for Everyone , New Jersey , Public Schools , The Cartel

The Cartel opens October 9 at the following theaters.

Teachers punished for speaking out. Principals fired for trying to do the right thing. Union leaders defending the indefensible. Bureaucrats blocking new charter schools. Teens who can’t read. Parents desperate for change. Teachers struggling to launch stable alternative schools for inner city kids who want to learn. These are just some of the people we [...]

New Jersey’s high school house of cards crumbles

Thursday, April 30 by Derrell Bradford NJ Voices Guest Blog The Special Review Assessment, the test given to New Jersey high school students who fail the state exit exam, was the subject of a recent state Department of Education report. The clash over the Special Review Assessment (SRA) reached a new low recently when the [...]

Derrell Bradford , Graduation-Rates , High School Proficiency Assessment , HSPA , Special Review Assessment , SRA , Standards , Testing

Education, By Any Means

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 By Anthony A. Williams and Kevin P. Chavous The Washington Post “We want freedom by any means necessary.” When Malcolm X uttered those words in June 1964, a chill traveled down the spine of America. The phrase signaled a change in the tone and tenor of the civil rights movement. It [...]

Anthony Williams , Arne Duncan , D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program , Kevin Chavous , Michelle Rhee , President Barack Obnama , Reform , School Choice , Vouchers