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January 11, 2023

State Charter Association Awards Grants to Top-Performing Schools That Serve Needy Families–Contingent on Murphy’s Education Department’s Response

Ed. Note: Two of the three schools receiving these grants—Trenton’s Achievers Early Charter School and Paul Robeson Charter School—were denied expansion plans last year, despite […]
January 9, 2023

Asbury Park Spends Twice as Much Per Pupil Compared to Lakewood: How’s That Working Out for Kids?

This past weekend the Asbury Park Press published an  analysis that ranks most of New Jersey’s school districts on student proficiency gauged by results from […]
January 5, 2023

New Jersey’s Largest Charter School Pilots Coding for Non-STEM Classes Thanks to Grant from U.S. Education Department

Who says coding is just for STEM classes? North Star Academy in Newark is embedding computational thinking – a broad skill set that includes coding […]
November 29, 2022

U.S. Office of Civil Rights To Investigate Lakewood Schools’ Discrimination of Latino Student with Disabilities

NJ Education Report has received, through an anonymous source, a formal complaint against the Lakewood Public Schools (LPS). The complaint was filed with the U.S. […]
November 28, 2022

Newark School Board Loses Its Battle To Force Teachers to Use Sick Days When Isolating From Covid–Plus, A Look Back

While Covid-19 was devastating schools, the Newark Board of Education decided to require teachers to use their sick days when they had to miss school […]