Jersey Jazzman: Trump Gets Debate Help from Chris Christie
Trump, we all know, has an aggressive personality and explodes with invective at any setback or slight. So, who helped prepare him for his disastrous...
Category : New Jersey
Darcie Cimarusti: How Charters in New Jersey Double-Dipped into Federal CARES Funding
Darcie Cimarusti is a school board member in New Jersey and Communications Director of the Network for Public Education. Her telling of charter school greed...
Juan Gonzalez: The Struggle to Save a Public School in New Brunswick, New Jersey, from Corporate Clutches
Juan Gonzalez is a veteran journalist who wrote a regular column for the “New York Daily News” for many years. He retired from the “News”...
Happy Decade of Blogging, Jersey Jazzman!
Jersey Jazzman (aka Mark Weber) just celebrated his first 10 years as a blogger. He explains that he started blogging because he was so outraged...
Keith E. Benson: What Reformers Are Really Doing in Camden and Other Urban Districts
Keith E. Benson is president of the Camden (New Jersey) Education Association. In his view, the underlying goal of the charter industry is gentrification, and...
Education Law Center Challenges Charter Expansion in New Jersey
The Education Law Center is suing in New Jersey Supreme Court to challenge the negative effects of charter schools on public schools in Newark. ELC...
Jersey Jazzman: Sorry, Jersey Charters, You Can’t Have It Both Ways
Jersey Jazzman notes that charters in his state are on the horns of a dilemma: on one hand, public school advocates are suing to block...
New Jersey: Is Chris Christie Still Governor?
The New Jersey Supreme Court has granted a petition filed by Education Law Center (ELC) to review the State Commissioner of Education’s 2016 decision approving...
Education Law Center Opposes Charter School Pre-School Programs in New Jersey’s Poorest Districts
Education Law Center is calling for the NJ Department of Education (NJDOE) to immediately end the unauthorized practice of allowing charter schools in poor urban...
Sue Altman: A Leader of the Resistance in New Jersey Fights the Democratic Machine
New Jersey is a corrupt state, whose Democratic leadership controls the state and patronage. The Democratic machine worked happily with Republican Governor Chris Christie. The...