October 20, 2020
Gov. Phil Murphy has just nominated a new Education Commissioner, Angelica Allen-McMillan. Here’s Murphy’s statement: “From day one, I pledged to select a Commissioner of […]
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October 19, 2020
Last week I interviewed Karega Rausch, the new Executive Director of the non-partisan National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA). Why should you care? Because […]
October 19, 2020
The Center for Reinventing Public Education’s Executive Director Robin Lake and Research Analyst Lanya McKittrick wrote this analysis, which first appeared here. When districts closed […]
October 16, 2020
My grandmother of blessed memory, Lena Weinman, divided the universe into two parts, what was “good for the Jews” and what was “bad for the […]
October 15, 2020
Today, the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools released the following statement reacting to new data from the Civil Rights Data Collection that shows […]
October 15, 2020
My daughter attends West Side High School in Newark. A long time ago, New Jersey promised us a new $160 million school building for West […]
October 14, 2020
This isn’t new news but it’s also not good news. Pew Charitable Trusts updated its pension study to include 2018 data, and NJ comes in dead last […]
October 14, 2020
Last week I wrote about how the practice of nepotism at the Schools Development Authority under the “leadership” of former CEO Lizette Polanco-Delgado matched the […]
October 8, 2020
There’s been lots of chatter about news that the Governor’s Office — not Murphy necessarily but, as NJ Spotlight puts it, “top members of Gov. […]
October 5, 2020
Currently Lakewood is New Jersey’s hot spot for coronoavirus infections. There are two reasons: 1) there is a lack of social-distancing and/or mask-wearing during the […]
September 30, 2020
Yesterday Governor Phil Murphy celebrated his victory — signing a Legislature-approved nine-month budget of $32.7 billion that includes his millionaire’s tax and a $4.5 billion […]
September 22, 2020
New Directions New Jersey, the PAC that promotes Gov. Phil Murphy’s agenda, just made a big ad buy of $1.25 million, according to NJ Globe. […]