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November 14, 2023

New Jersey Comes Out (Nearly) on Top For Charter School Student Learning

A study out today by by Paul E. Peterson and M. Danish Shakeel of Harvard University compares charter school student achievement in 35 states and […]
August 24, 2023

JerseyCAN Pleads With Murphy Administration to Leverage Literacy So Students Learn To Read

JerseyCAN pulls no punches in its latest report, “Leveraging Literacy: The Path to Education Recovery in New Jersey.” Looking closely at reading levels of New […]
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 […]
November 3, 2022

Murphy’s DOE Approves Second Charter in Five Years: Kindle Education Public Charter School in Jersey City 

Congratulations to Kindle Education Public Charter School, which was approved by the Department of Education to open in Jersey City, only the second new public charter […]
September 23, 2022

Jersey City Teacher/School Board Member: Both the State Education Department and The City Have Failed To Improve Our Schools

Yesterday Marilyn Roman published a very long analysis of the failings of New Jersey’s second largest school system. As a retired Jersey City educator, City […]
September 14, 2022

BREAKING: State Ed Department and State Board Return Local Control to Jersey City Public Schools

Today during the New Jersey State Board of Education meeting, Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan recommended that the Board approve a resolution to return Jersey City Public […]