Monday, 28 July 2008 – 9:53 am
“At Struggling School, Pride Displaces Failure”:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/20Rschoolnj.xml
The Newton School celebrates a jump in standardized test scores that may have saved it from complete shutdown.
Just last summer, the Newark Teachers Union invested $100,000 into an improvement program at Newton, though they had poured more than half of that into “political attack billboard ads”:http://dailynewarker.com/2007/07/04/teachers-union-reforms-newton-street-school/ around the city.
The [...]
Monday, 16 June 2008 – 11:23 pm
Joseph Del Grasso, president of the Newark Teachers Union, June 15, 2008.
There is not supposed to be politics involved in public schools.
Maybe a Teachers’ Union staffer wasn’t reading the paper on Sunday before this hatchet job was mailed out to Newark residents on Monday:
The attack by Newark’s political bosses and Booker on Congressman Donald Payne, [...]
Monday, 26 March 2007 – 10:30 pm
So, a few months ago, when the Newark Teachers Union took out billboard ads across the city condemning the spike in gun-related violence, I understood that it was a response (however misguided) to the pain the community was feeling at the time.
But this is getting ridiculous.
Since then, the campaign has only grown bigger. Almost [...]
