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June 14, 2022

As Murphy Plots a Presidential Run, Low-Income Families Pay the Price

At a Goldman Sachs conference in April of 2017, a month before Phil Murphy declared his candidacy for New Jersey governor, a former governor’s wife […]
June 7, 2022

Newark Schools Chief Roger León Gets Grilled On Student Learning Loss–and Comes Up Short

Yesterday Newark Superintendent Roger León was in the hot seat at the Newark Municipal Council Education Committee as he took questions from council members about […]
June 3, 2022

COMMENTARY: Murphy Treats Low-Income Families as Political Footballs As He Shuts Down Their Best Schools

Late yesterday Acting Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan sent a letter to Newark’s University Heights Charter School that decreed, based on “subjective conclusions reported from one […]
May 27, 2022

Newark High School Teacher Explains Why Students Are ‘Flagrantly Skipping Class’

In a no-holds-barred op-ed today, Newark history teacher Yvette Jordan explains why Newark district high school students have “have unconsciously initiated a general strike” due […]