January 28, 2019
I’ve often wondered to what degree Gov. Phil Murphy’s agenda is driven by the wonts of NJEA, New Jersey’s primary teacher union. After all, his […]
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January 24, 2019
Let’s be clear: the vast majority of staff members at the New Jersey Department of Education are caring, competent people, focused on the best policies […]
January 22, 2019
Throughout Phil Murphy’s slipshod attempts to eliminate PARCC assessments I’ve always wondered whether the State Legislature would take some sort of action to maintain this […]
January 15, 2019
Less than two weeks ago a local paper reported that Trenton public schools students feel unsafe and uneducated. At about the same time an appellate court […]
January 10, 2019
Newsflash: insiders tell me that there has been no improvement within New Jersey’s floundering Department of Education. In an accidental metaphor, the pages of the […]
January 7, 2019
The New Jersey Globe recently published its annual “Year in Review,” a listing of Garden State political winners and losers, as well as a set […]
January 4, 2019
This is a press release from the New Jersey Charter School Association, a statewide association representing the state’s charter sector. Last week, the New Jersey Department of […]
December 17, 2018
This is another in an ongoing series of blog posts about the alarming deterioration of leadership at the New Jersey Department of Education (DOE). The […]
December 13, 2018
I have the lead piece in The 74 today on how two veteran New Jersey teachers are trying to resign from the state’s teacher union, […]
December 13, 2018
Earlier this week The 74 published a column I wrote called “These 2 Teachers Wanted to Quit Their Union — but NJ Law Wouldn’t Let […]
December 7, 2018
Earlier this week school districts in New Jersey received this email from the Department of Education: Dear Colleague: You are receiving this message because this […]
December 3, 2018
I’ve been thinking about race this weekend, probably because NJ Advance Media just came out with The Force Report, which describes this state’s broken criminal […]