Welcome to the 2013/14 school year! I love new beginnings. When I was in school I remember my 4th grade teacher telling me that everybody starts the new school year with an “A”. What a great way to set us on our educational journey! I wish all
Read more →Changing the school board election from April to November will make a dramatic shift in who runs for school board and how much it will cost a candidate to run. Moving to a November election will essentially give control of the school board to the county chair
Read more →PEF has observed Paterson charter schools over the years as a viable option for Paterson families, but hardly a cure all. Charters will never serve all of our students. Now, we have two new charter school applications on a fast track for Paterson. Both come from charter
Read more →I’ve gone to Trenton many times over my career with PEF. It has always been to advocate for Paterson’s children. I’ll be going again in February to discuss Pateson Reads as a model for other communities to improve early learning. Ar Wednesday night’s school board meeting, when I
Read more →As I follow the education debates, I can’t help but believe that the pendulum is swinging back. It’s not a big movement yet. It’s a lot of small things. But that is how the pendulum swing changes. What are the small things? Chicago teachers strike over high
Read more →Today I read about the continuing fight of Malala Yousafzai, a 14 year old Pakistani girl, shot in the head for promoting girl’s education. Hard to imagine that you risk death for wanting an education, isn’t it? There are no Taliban here to threaten our girls with
Read more →On last Saturday, we joined PEOC in bringing light to a national crisis: pushing our kids out of school by suspending them. It’s not just a national problem. It hurts us here in Paterson, too. In 2010-11, Paterson schools suspended over 4,000 of our children. The numbers
Read more →On September 13 Paterson Education Fund’s Board of Directors unanimously passed the following resolution: “PEF will educate citizens as to the process to move the School Board Election from April to November. This will include issuance of a timeline, Q&A and other pertinent information. PEF will recommend
Read more →On Wednesday June 13 at the Paterson School Board meeting, parents will once again come out to voice their dissatisfaction with the school transformation plan. At last week’s school board workshop, School 15 and New Roberto Clemente parents joined the discussion. They want more information about the details of
Read more →Click the link to find your child’s name in the 2012 50 Book Club Members Poster. Thank you to all those parents and children who show us each year that Paterson children indeed love to read!
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