Derrell Bradford

Aug.24

2010

Who will win the war over the future of public education in New Jersey?

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story appears in the September edition of Inside Jersey. After the magazine went to press, Congress passed a bill approving $10 billion in aid for school districts nationwide to put laid-off teachers and other school staff back to work. President Obama quickly signed the measure into law. New Jersey is expected to [...]

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Aug.23

2010

Charter schools face fights in well-off NJ suburbs

Charter schools are a mainstay in New Jersey’s poorest cities, offering students alternatives to struggling public schools. But as new publicly funded charters try to bring unconventional teaching methods to wealthy suburbs with high performing public schools, they’re running into legal tussles.

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Aug.20

2010

Making the Grade

E3 Executive Director Derrell Bradford, Founder of the American Indian Public Charter school Ben Chavis, and Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, talk education reform with MSNBC’s Tameron Hall and Hill Harper.

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Aug.17

2010

Why school choice is compelling for kids, parents

When I came to New York City in the mid-90s, I moved into the cheapest apartment I could afford in the nicest neighborhood I could find. That place was a first-floor front studio on 94th street just off of Central Park. It was a gorgeous block, but I lived in its lone eyesore of a [...]

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Jun.14

2010

Spotlight: School Choice Advocate

Derrell Bradford says a scholarship to ‘hoity-toity high school’ saved his life, and carries a passion to bring the same chance to others through school vouchers. His second passion: video games Derrell Bradford Title: Executive director, Excellent Education for Everyone (E3) Age: 36 Why he’s a player: For much of the past decade, E3 has [...]

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Jun.1

2010

Teacher tenure: Has it outlived its usefulness? Yes

Make it harder to get, easier to revoke There are a few third rails in education reform. School choice and merit pay are among them. And just as discussion about them has increased in both frequency and seriousness recently, so has the focus on what is arguably the holy grail of teacher collective bargaining: tenure.

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May.7

2010

Commissioner Schundler’s recipe for scholastic success: Choice, competition and accountability

May 06, 2010 Krystal Knapp The Times of Trenton PRINCETON BOROUGH — School choice. Competition from charter schools. A system of accountability. Those are the key elements required for successful school reform in New Jersey, particularly for its ailing and failing inner city schools, says Bret Schundler, the state commissioner of education.

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Apr.29

2010

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 [...]

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