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December 18, 2023

By NJER Newsroom at December 18, 2023

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Hoboken Dual Language Charter School Students Shine at Brown University Science Olympiad

Bilingual Public Charter School Excels in Spanish Codebreaking, Among Other Events 7th and 8th Grade students from Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa Hoboken) turned […]

December 15, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 15, 2023

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Murphy’s Education Chief Rejects ‘Fajr’s Law,’ Intended to Protect Students with Disabilities

This past July Fajr Williams, a six-year-old child with multiple disabilities, was riding home from a summer program on her Franklin Township school bus when […]

December 15, 2023

By NJER Newsroom at December 15, 2023

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PEN America Protests Rutgers’ Suspension of Pro-Palestinian Group

This is a press release. Rutgers University-New Brunswick became the fourth university, and first public university, this week to suspend a chapter of Students for Justice in […]

December 15, 2023

By NJER Newsroom at December 15, 2023

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NJ Public Charter School Parents Take to the Statehouse, Urging Governor and Lawmakers to Support Charter Facilities Funding

Representatives of the New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association (NJPCSA) joined over 30 public charter school parents from Camden, Paterson, Newark, Trenton, Plainfield, Jersey City and other communities at […]

December 14, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 14, 2023

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Lakewood Macher* Has an Opportunity. Will He Take It?

It was big news in Lakewood and beyond when Assemblyman-Elect Avi Schnall became the first Democrat to win in his Ocean County district in 30 […]

December 14, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 14, 2023

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Report Card Grades Instead of Assessments? NJ Legislature Is Losing the Plot.

Everyone loves to hate the NJGPA, the state standardized test that 11th-graders can take as one of multiple pathway to a high school diploma. There […]

COMMUNITIES

August 8, 2023

Great Leaders Embrace School Choice | NJ Education Report

By Laura Waters at August 8, 2023

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Great Leaders Embrace School Choice

One of the struggles for families who live in large low-performing districts is finding the best public school for their child. Two of our largest […]

August 3, 2023

By Laura Waters at August 3, 2023

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Finally, Lakewood Has a Real School Board Race

It wasn’t so long ago that school board elections in Lakewood were a non-event: the Vaad, eleven ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who control city politics, chose […]

August 1, 2023

By Laura Waters at August 1, 2023

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Newark Leaders Struggle to Retain Black Teachers Who Report Racial Harassment And Indifference

According to John Abeigon, president of the Newark Teachers Union, while Superintendent Roger Leon and his administration team seem to recognize that student success is […]

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 […]