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January 25, 2024

By Laura Waters at January 25, 2024

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Double-Header Tonight in Newark and Asbury Park

Tonight, Thursday January 25th, both the Newark and Asbury Park Boards of Education have public meetings. Here are highlights to look for. Newark: Mr. Luna […]

January 25, 2024

By Laura Waters at January 25, 2024

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New Jersey Has Spent Just 62% of Its Emergency COVID Money

Back in 2021 the Biden Administration announced the American Rescue Plan, intended to fund educational learning loss, courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The whole package […]

January 25, 2024

By Guest Contributor at January 25, 2024

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Judge Demands Access to Report on Racism at Newark School, Currently Withheld From Public

Matt Kadosh is a journalist at TAPintoNewark, where this first appeared. A Superior Court judge on Tuesday, Jan. 23, ordered a report that details allegations of […]

January 24, 2024

By Laura Waters at January 24, 2024

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New Competition Between Camden and Newark Will Boost Students’ College Funding

Last year NJ Ed Report covered Camden’s ““FASFA Challenge,” a competition among all city high schools—district, charter, and renaissance—that awarded $25,000 to the school where […]

January 24, 2024

By NJER Newsroom at January 24, 2024

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2024 ‘FAFSA Challenge’ to Pit Camden vs. Newark

Camden Education Fund and NJ Children’s Foundation Announce Challenge to Kick-Start Momentum-Building Year for College Enrollment The 2024 “FAFSA Challenge” will kick off on Thursday […]

January 24, 2024

By NJER Newsroom at January 24, 2024

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Press Release

NJEA Issues Statement on School Censorship and Book Bans

The New Jersey Library Association (NJLA), the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL), New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) have watched, with concern, the growing […]

COMMUNITIES

September 12, 2023

Q&A: COVID and All, How Is This Trenton Public Charter School Beating the Odds? | NJ Education Report

By Laura Waters at September 12, 2023

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Q&A: COVID and All, How Is This Trenton Public Charter School Beating the Odds?

Foundation Academies Charter School in Trenton, now in its fifteenth year of operation, is a public charter school that serves 10% of all Trenton public […]

September 8, 2023

By Laura Waters at September 8, 2023

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Newark
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If You Build It They Won’t Come: A Look at Newark’s Enrollment

Last year Newark Board of Education president Dawn Hayes boasted, in an echo of superintendent Roger Leon’s claims, “Schools are opening or re-opening or expanding. […]

September 1, 2023

By Laura Waters at September 1, 2023

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Newark
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Three Updates On Newark Public Schools

There is no shortage of news coming out of Newark Public Schools District. To help you follow along, here are the most recent revelations about […]

OPINION

May 25, 2022

By Laura Waters at May 25, 2022

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COMMENTARY: Yes, Murphy’s DOE Flunked Remote Learning But Let’s Not Get Carried Away

The new Rutgers paper, “Digital Divide, Critical and Crisis-Informatics Perspectives on K-12 Emergency Remote Teaching During the Pandemic,” is a valuable (if jargony) overview of […]

May 20, 2022

By Michael Lilley, Sunlight Policy Center at May 20, 2022

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LILLEY: NJ Is #1–At Least In School Closings and Remote Instruction

While the NJEA wants to claim that learning loss did not really occur, a new study by Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research sheds some much-needed light on […]

May 18, 2022

By Michael Lilley, Sunlight Policy Center at May 18, 2022

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LILLEY: Deb Cornavaca, the NJEA, and Gov. Murphy Are One Revolving Door of Special-Interest Influence

Well, well, well, as night follows day, a NJEA political organizer cycles into the Murphy administration as a senior officer and then cycles right back […]