How long, Gov. Christie, how long? Our children sit in substandard, inadequate and obsolete schools. You could fix it. Just one word to the SDA, “Go!” For Paterson’s children, four projects sit waiting for action. The most needed is the one at Hazel and Marshall Streets. Stalled
Read more →Gov. Christie moves to limit superintendent salaries and the suburbs fight back. Could this be the issue that brings the cities and the suburbs together? Listening to the suburban superintendents and school board members at a public hearing last week gives me hope that city/suburb education coalitions
Read more →I participated in professional development at two national conferences last week, hence no blogs. My brain gets too full! I find I’m not only taking in the content of the meetings, but dreaming about how to use the knowledge to push us forward. It’s the activist in
Read more →Thanks to John Mooney and and NJ Spotlight, we now know that 308 employees of the School Development Authority, including nearly 50 making over $100,000, have worked for nearly a year to reconsider 50 school projects and reorganize the organizational chart. With roughly 60 SDA employees per
Read more →As I get ready for Dr. Evan’s forum at Rosa Parks tonight at 5 pm, I’m thinking about charter schools as a reform strategy. As Dr. Evans explained last week, Paterson does not have the authority to give any group a charter. Currently, only the New Jersey
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