December 20, 2017
Unity Charter School in Morristown, NJ just announced that its Executive Director, Connie Sanchez, has been named to New Jersey Governor Elect Phil Murphy’s transition […]
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November 27, 2017
(This is a guest post by Michael Lilley, former executive director of Better Education For NJ Kids (B4K) and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise […]
November 3, 2017
To no one’s surprise, the Lakewood Vaad, a group of eleven ultra-Orthodox men who control all educational, political, budgetary, and construction activity in this rapidly-growing […]
September 27, 2017
At a town hall in Montclair this past weekend, Phil Murphy held forth on the four New Jersey school districts — Jersey City, Paterson, Newark, […]
September 19, 2017
I am a proud public school teacher, but I am ashamed of my union leadership at the NJEA. I implore fellow public school educators and […]
September 15, 2017
This just in from Matt Rooney of Save Jersey, who speculates how Governor-to-be Phil Murphy so easily secured the Democratic nomination. Says Rooney, “he bought […]
September 5, 2017
Last week AFT President Randi Weingarten hosted teachers from Newark, Perth Amboy, North Bergen, and Garfield for a meet-and-greet with gubernatorial shoo-ins Phil Murphy and […]
August 14, 2017
In an interview in today’s Star-Ledger, Newark Superintendent and former New Jersey Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf discusses the threat of a charter school moratorium, […]
August 2, 2017
“Pivoting” is an essential political skill when faced with a question you don’t want to answer. While I am eager to hear a non-pivot on […]
July 27, 2017
The New Jersey Department of Education just released our children’s 2017 scores on the state standardized PARCC tests in language arts and math. The news […]
June 28, 2017
The big news story today, of course, is U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell’s failure to summon enough votes to bring to the floor a bill that […]
May 31, 2017
There is a sector of schools in New Jersey that rigorously creams off top-performing students, provides little (if any) support for students with disabilities, doesn’t […]