By HAROLD E. FORD JR., LOUIS V. GERSTNER JR. AND ELI BROAD The Wall Street Journal We can get real reform if the president resists pressure to dilute standards. For decades, policy makers have talked about significantly improving public education. The problem has been clear: one-third of public school children fail to graduate, there are [...]
The Star Ledger When Myriam Bindas of Phillipsburg was looking for schools for her children a few years ago, she was surprised to find she had a choice of public school districts. After many phone calls, she had stumbled onto the state’s Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, and her 8-year-old daughter has attended public school [...]
November 23, 2009 By DIANE D’AMICO Education Writer The Press of Atlantic City TRENTON — The state Senate Education Committee approved a bill Monday that would allow the education commissioner to approve public school choice in any school district that wanted to open its doors to children from other districts. The bill could help shrinking [...]
By YOAV GONEN The New York Post When Cynthia Lee’s daughter graduated from her charter elementary school in June, her mother tried to enroll her in a charter middle school near her Harlem office. But despite applying to as many as a dozen schools in the area, she couldn’t earn a spot for her daughter [...]
NOVEMBER 19, 2009 By NEIL KING JR. and JOHN HECHINGER The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it wants to remake public education around the principle that the best teachers should be promoted and rewarded, regardless of seniority. And a brawl over just that idea is now playing out in the shadow [...]
November 17, 2009 One News Now A New Jersey school choice advocate says he will not miss the state’s outgoing Governor John Corzine or his ineffective methods of improving education for inner-city minorites. Educational reform supporters are excited about the election of New Jersey’s Republican Chris Christie. Governor-elect Christie took a strong stand on education [...]
November 15, 2009 By Max Pizarro PolitickerNJ.com On Friday night crime patrol, Booker reiterated insistently that his focus – if not political – is the street – where, he says, heading toward his second term election next year, “shootings are down.” But if the policy differences between Booker’s Newark and Christie’s New Jersey prove irreconcilable, [...]
November 12, 2009 CATHERINE GEWERTZ EDUCATION WEEK Nov. 12–The election of Republican Chris Christie as New Jersey’s next governor has drawn cheers from the state’s charter school and voucher advocates, even as it sparks worry that his promise to reduce taxes and spending in the face of a massive budget shortfall could result in cuts [...]