July 25, 2022
This is a press release. Fredon Township Mayor and former school board president John Flora is urging conservatives to file today (July 25) to run […]
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April 8, 2022
Two weeks ago the Jersey City Board of Education, by a vote of 5-4, passed a slightly lower 2022-2023 school budget of $973.8 million, raising […]
March 29, 2022
COMMENTARY: Is Biden Really Trying To ‘Yank Students Out of Schools Their Parents Chose’? So Murphy.
The Biden Administration just released new rules for applicants to the federal Charter Schools Program (CSP), which is supposed to help public charters with start-up expenses […]
March 28, 2022
Ron Greco, the president of the Jersey City Education Association (JCEA), the local arm of the teachers union, made an impassioned plea to the Jersey […]
March 25, 2022
Jersey City Addendum: How a Board Member’s Ties to the Teachers Union Can Lead to School Budget Woes
Earlier this week, in a story about Jersey City Public Schools’ habit of giving large bonuses to central office administrators, I neglected a key piece […]
March 23, 2022
Today the Jersey Journal recounts that Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, perennially-hopeful gubernatorial candidate, is slamming the city School Board for raising taxes by $1,600 […]
March 22, 2022
Last night the Jersey City Board of Education voted 5-4 to approve a new 2022-2023 budget. Last week members had expressed dismay at the district’s […]
March 18, 2022
The Jersey City Board of Education held a marathon meeting yesterday trying to balance the burden on taxpayers—the proposed 2022-2023 budget will add $2,400 a […]
March 16, 2022
Jersey City and Lakewood’s public school districts couldn’t be more dissimilar. The former, New Jersey’s second largest district, educates 33,000 students—a mix of Black, white, […]
February 23, 2022
Back in 2010 during the Christie Administration, the New Jersey State Legislature passed a bill that capped sick day retirement-payouts to $15,000 for public employees […]
February 8, 2022
Yesterday Gov. Phil Murphy announced that his mask mandate for all schools and daycare centers (for children over 2) would be lifted on March 7th, […]
February 1, 2022
Felicia Henderson is a first-grade teacher at Learning Community Charter School in Jersey City. She serves as the head of the Social Justice Coordinate and […]