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State Board Update: Is Camden Raising Custodians or Collegians?

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January 5, 2024

By NJER Newsroom at January 5, 2024

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News

Berkeley Heights Community Watch Celebrates Resignation of Superintendent

Ed. Note: This is an announcement from Berkeley Heights Community Watch. In an email this morning, Dr. Melissa Varley resigned as Superintendent of Berkeley Heights […]

January 4, 2024

By Laura Waters at January 4, 2024

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If Murphy Cares About Education, He’ll Take a Lesson From New York

I’ve been hard on the New Jersey Department of Education, especially during the last few years when, instead of focusing on COVID learning losses —currently […]

January 4, 2024

By Michael Lilley, Sunlight Policy Center at January 4, 2024

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News
Opinion

LILLEY: If NJ Teachers Had a Choice, Would They Cut NJEA Political Spending and Executive Pay To Get a 50% Cut in Dues?

Thanks to NJEA-friendly laws, they don’t have that choice, but Dade County, FL shows what can happen when teachers get a choice about who represents […]

January 3, 2024

By Guest Contributor at January 3, 2024

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CERF: Lowering High School Diploma Standards Is The Opposite of Equity and Social Justice

Chris Cerf was Superintendent of Newark Public Schools and New Jersey’s Commissioner of Education. In the latter roll he oversaw 2,500 public schools, 1.4 million […]

January 3, 2024

By Laura Waters at January 3, 2024

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News

The Twenty Most Violent Schools in New Jersey

We know America’s public schools have seen an increase in violence since students returned after COVID school closures. In a recent study, the Nation Center […]

January 3, 2024

By NJER Newsroom at January 3, 2024

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SOMA Black Parents Workshop Asks Victims Of High School Principal To Speak Up

Ed. Note: Yesterday South Orange-Maplewood Superintendent Dr. Kevin Gilbert notified families that Columbia High School principal Frank Sanchez was placed on administrative leave. While no […]

COMMUNITIES

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
News

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 […]

July 31, 2023

By Laura Waters at July 31, 2023

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Only In Asbury Park Is Nepotism a Win for Students

According to inside sources at Asbury Park schools, the Administration, with complicity of the majority of the school board, is once again engaging in nepotism. […]

OPINION

April 22, 2022

By Contributor at April 22, 2022

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REILLY: Teachers Are Stuck in a ‘Survival Mindset’: Here’s How to Help

John Reilly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Clinical Director For Thrive Alliance Group. After two years of disruption, fear and a constant confrontation with […]

April 20, 2022

By Laura Waters at April 20, 2022

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COMMENTARY: Is This School Really a Remedy For NJ’s Intensely-Segregated School System?

Yesterday the New Jersey Monitor had a fine piece on the Garden State’s long struggle to integrate schools, currently the subject of a lawsuit. One […]

April 19, 2022

By Staff Writer at April 19, 2022

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Parents Demand Reversal of Murphy Administration’s New Sexual Education Standards: ‘Opting Out Is Not a Reasonable Solution’

This is a petition challenging the decision by Gov. Murphy’s Education Department to revise the health and physical education standards, approved by the State Board […]