June 11, 2020
Governor Phil Murphy has yet to announce plans for school reopenings. Regarding summer services for students with disabilities, known as “Extended School Year” or ESY, […]
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June 11, 2020
As New Jersey enters its fourth month of school closures due to COVID-19, students on the margins are predictably suffering the most, especially those with […]
May 22, 2020
Earlier this week I published a letter from a law firm representing NJEA, sent to Lakewood Public Schools Superintendent Laura Winters and cc’d to the […]
May 20, 2020
Last week the law firm Selikoff & Cohen sent a seven-page letter on behalf of NJEA and the union’s local Lakewood arm to Superintendent Laura […]
May 7, 2020
Later today at its public meeting the Lakewood Board of Education will approve a budget of $204 million that assumes the state will kick in […]
May 5, 2020
This is a guest post by Mike Lilley, founder and president of the Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on showcasing […]
May 4, 2020
I’ve spent a fair bit of time recently on Asbury Park Public Schools at the behest of residents and staff members who have asked me […]
May 1, 2020
On Wednesday night the Asbury Park Board of Education held its monthly public meeting. Sort of. While other districts are finding creative ways to include […]
April 29, 2020
On Monday I wrote about Paterson Public Schools’ poor implementation of home instruction during this pandemic, hindered largely by the lack of one-on-one devices for […]
April 20, 2020
Three weeks ago a reader asked me an intriguing question: Is Sean Spiller, candidate for Mayor of Montclair and NJEA Vice President, actually running for […]
April 17, 2020
We’re about 5 weeks into our coronavirus lock-down in New Jersey, about a month since much of America has embarked on a national experiment of […]
April 3, 2020
Here in New Jersey, the second hardest-hit state in the country after New York, we’re scrambling to control the coronavirus. Currently we have 25,590 confirmed […]