At least 100 fewer seniors graduated from Camden City’s public high schools June 30 than last year, and it’s not clear if all students who walked in ceremonies have earned their diploma. In 2009, 551 seniors received diplomas from one of Camden’s five high schools, but this year, only 451 seniors participated in graduation ceremonies, [...]
New Jersey education Commissioner Bret Schundler, stands at the podium in the foreground, left, as he addresses the crowd. Students, parents, and teachers arrived at the Statehouse in Trenton in May for a rally demanding state lawmakers provide disadvantaged families with the opportunity to have school vouchers.
The futures of 370 high school dropouts got a big boost and education-choice proponents argued their case during a graduation ceremony Monday for a grassroots Camden alternative school. Held at the Susquehanna Bank Center, the commencement was the largest in the three-year history of the Community Education Resource Network (CERN), according to cofounder and political [...]
Movie Review of “The Cartel” 3.5 Stars by Kyle Smith The New York Post For parents of kids in public schools, the heartbreaking documentary “The Cartel” is a revelation. Documentary filmmaker Bob Bowdon takes us through the inept, corrupt, embarrassing and spendthrift New Jersey public school system to expose what lies in plain sight: Teachers’ [...]
January 31, 2010 The Courier-Post It took more than three years in jail to set Angel Cordero straight. Before he was one of Camden’s leading school choice activists, before he was staging protests against Camden educators and before he was running for mayor of the city, Cordero was a drug dealer.
January 24, 2010 By JOSEPH GIDJUNIS The Courier-Post Students in Camden City Schools are having their education shortchanged by teachers who are absent from the classroom more than their colleagues across the country, and come to school less than their own students.
By Rita Giordano and Dylan Purcell The Philadelphia Inquirer The passing rates of three-quarters of South Jersey’s high schools dropped in state math tests last year, while nearly a third of the schools saw declines in language-arts scores, according to data released yesterday by New Jersey education officials. Fifteen out of 60 South Jersey high [...]
December 19, 2009 By JOSEPH GIDJUNIS The Courier-Post The state Education Department will start designing the new $110 million Camden High School after the city’s Board of Education approved a resolution requesting a campus with multiple small learning communities which could integrate the city’s magnet schools.