I’m sure. Don’t you want to speak with someone whose statements you can misrepresent and skew the way the NJEA directed the JC Times? Come on — honestly you can’t be this naive.

Plenty of parts of Bergen-Lafayette and Greenville which won't be getting gentrified any time soon. Anything between MLK and Ocean in particular, once you get a few blocks away from the light rail.

I want to talk about the benefits of charter schools because their scores are higher but i want to get the perspective of someone who has children in them because they can compare the schools the best.

You’re fundamentally uninformed about charter schools. Ask your NJEA buddies to run the statistics on funding and class size and compare the outcomes.

For the last several years, JC Times has consistently embraced an adversarial approach to charters by specifically parroting NJEA’s spin on charters.

Enjoy the dark side.

Hi, I am sorry to hear you feel that way about NJEA, but as I mentioned in my edit, MY personal goal is not to discredit anyone but to write what can be proven. Scores in most charter schools are far better but I want to know why. The small classrooms may be the key, the distribution of funds, the quality of teachers. As I mentioned below, the general perspective is that charters are selective, hurt local schools, etc, but I want to talk about the ones JC residents have access to, not the general idea of what a charter school does.

My goal is to reach out to JC wherever I can, facebook, twitter, reddit, any way possible so that I can hear the neighborhoods perspective and formally interview them because unless there are EXTREME circumstances, I and most journalists prefer to not use anonymous sources as there is no way to confirm their words.

Thank you, I am aware that lottery takes place when too many students/parents apply and that if a student has a sibling in a charter they will get preference because there is a benefit to them being together. I say there are more selective because that is the national perspective and I want to make sure that in Jersey City, people know how they work and if they work (like with your children). If there is more support and the right kind of support, where students feel they're cared for, that is something that makes a significant difference.

You “know” charter schools are more selective? Charter schools in JC enroll students through lottery.

You could try to make a correlation about families that are informed or motivated enough to enter a lottery > being more involved in kid’s education > higher scores I guess. But that’s not the same as the schools cherry-picking their students.

I'll just echo what everyone else is saying: charter schools in Jersey City are by lottery and therefore aren't more selective. So are you being disingenuous? Or do you just not know the basic facts of what you're reporting on?

I do have two kids who went to a K-8 charter (TECCS), and I can't imagine the tests were administered any differently, but the kids did get a lot of support, despite the school's criminal lack of funding in its early years. Smaller class sizes meant they got a bit more attention, and the faculty and staff really took the "community" in the name seriously. I always felt like the people there were invested in my kids and wanted them to do well.

All I did was post the news!

Lol “competitivity”.

It’s also the data sources. Different real estate companies use different listing services to advertise units. Nobody is everywhere. Some even have exclusivity periods with certain services. There’s also landlords who only do by referral or advertise with a sign in the window.

And despite what many people think, there’s no official registry of available units, so any research on listed rent is going to have a lot of bias. Just depends what the researchers want to say.

I didn't know that! Nice.

Hey, Reddit's an excellent place to find unconfirmed reports from anonymous sources!

Yes, hence Manhattan rent being higher

Isn’t the “economic terms” fully encapsulated in rental price?

people over profits!

Thank you chief for protecting this lovely green space!

ahh makes sense

Lol can I apply to your newspaper where my job research would consist of asking questions on Reddit? 💀

I like how they got someone with an accent to lead the ad. So progressive!

I blame karaoke room amenities.

🐂 💩. Charter schools, by law, have to educate every student in their communities equitably, hence these public schools admit their students through unweighted lotteries.

That test results differ across different schools is pretty normal — in fact they are all around the place, because test results tend to be normally distributed.

JCTimes is and has been a NJEA sock puppet.

This is another of their efforts to support the NJEA, the current JCBOE board, and higher property taxes - and rents!

Statistics hard.

Huh? Charter schools are not selective because they are not allowed to select. It is true that parents can choose the charter schools but that's the point of charter schools. Bad charters close, successful charters grow.