Build our new school to educate the children

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

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Suburban Allies? We can only hope.

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

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Hands on! Motivating younger learners with young learners

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

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