Interim president of Essex County College assumes new role, navigates county politics
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April 21, 2013 at 7:30 AM
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E3 Parent Roundtable @ St. Benedict’s Preparatory School – National School Choice Week 2013
“Parents and communities of color have been left out of the most important discussion (urban education reform) since the civil rights movement,” said Kevin Jenkins VP of Operations for E3.” “Engaging parents in the discussion, leading the process of reform utilizing the input of the stakeholders themselves is the only way to affect effective, systemic and sustainable change in urban education.” (more…)
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Leave a Comment (0) →Donation push meets $100M goal for Newark schools, sources say
The donations will cap a more-than-two-year quest to answer the young billionaire’s challenge, which stipulated that the city could only access his funds once other donors matched the gift. The gifts, however, are not finalized.
“Raising the money is critical, but what the money accomplishes is what matters,” said Derrell Bradford, executive director of Better Education for Kids, a school reform advocacy group. (more…)
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Leave a Comment (0) →Report: Nearly all of Newark’s most disadvantaged students attend failing schools
NEWARK — Nearly all of Newark’s most disadvantaged elementary and middle school students attend failing district and charter schools, a report released today has found.
The report, commissioned by the district and prepared by the Boston-based consulting company Parthenon, analyzed student proficiency in math and reading, college readiness and test score growth in 85 charter and district schools across the state’s largest city. (more…)
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Leave a Comment (0) →NJ Charter School Students Learn More Than Their Peers, Says New Report
Newark charters lift statewide averages, while advantages not necessarily shown elsewhere
New Jersey’s ongoing debate about whether traditional public schools or charters do a better job educating students got some provocative new data yesterday, courtesy of a study from Stanford University that came down on the side of the charters — particularly in Newark’s embattled school district. (more…)
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Leave a Comment (0) →Spotlight Research: NJ Teacher-Evaluation Reform Compared to Other States
Drew professor looks at progress in implementing systems required by Race to the Top
What it is: The Center for American Progress, a liberal public policy think-tank, this week released a report titled “The State of Teacher Evaluation Reform,” which looks at new teacher-evaluation systems in New Jersey and five other states as they continue to evolve under new state and national mandates. (more…)
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Leave a Comment (0) →Facebook Fund Helps Seal the Deal for Newark Teachers’ Contract
Money funneled to high-profile performance bonuses, and nuts-and-bolts retroactive pay
The fund created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to help Newark schools will contribute a little less than $50 million to the contract ratified this week for the city’s teachers, but not necessarily in the ways many expected. (more…)
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Leave a Comment (0) →Newark Contract Marks High Point of Christie Education Agenda
Most recent deal could be last major victory as election year looms
Gov. Chris Christie clearly placed education at the top of his priorities from the day he was elected three years ago, making his very first stop a Newark charter school and promising a host of reforms to come. (more…)
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