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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 […]

January 2, 2024

By Laura Waters at January 2, 2024

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Asbury Park Administrators: ‘We Have Arrived At a Crisis’

Thursday evening the Asbury Park Board of Education will have its annual reorganization meeting, typically a humdrum affair with selection of officers and lots of […]

January 2, 2024

By Laura Waters at January 2, 2024

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News

BREAKING: South Orange-Maplewood Principal Out Under Mysterious Circumstances

Today families and staff in the South Orange-Maplewood School District received a letter from Acting Superintendent of Schools Kevin Gilbert advising them that Columbia High […]

COMMUNITIES

July 17, 2023

By Laura Waters at July 17, 2023

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NEW VIDEO: In Its First Year, Newark Common App Achieves Equity for Families. Here’s How.

NJER TV’s new short video features the New Jersey Children’s Foundation team that created the Newark Common App, launched this past spring to resounding success. […]

July 14, 2023

By Laura Waters at July 14, 2023

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Three Questions For State Board Vice President on ‘Woke Ideology’ and Oversight

On Wednesday at the State Board of Education’s public meeting, Kathy Goldenberg and Andrew Mulvihill were re-elected as President and Vice President. Mulvihill was appointed […]

July 14, 2023

By Contributor at July 14, 2023

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News
Trenton

NJ Charter Schools Want Equal Treatment To Fix Their Buildings

P. Kenneth Burns is WHYY’s South Jersey reporter. This first appeared at WHYY. If a pipe bursts at one of the two locations that Foundation […]

OPINION

March 31, 2022

By Contributor at March 31, 2022

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FRANKEL: Phil Murphy’s Fear of Owning What He Says Makes It Hard To Be a Democrat Right Now

Matthew Frankel worked in the Clinton White House, the Office of House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt, and is a veteran of a variety of Democratic […]

March 29, 2022

By Laura Waters at March 29, 2022

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COMMENTARY: Is Biden Really Trying To ‘Yank Students Out of Schools Their Parents Chose’? So Murphy.

The Biden Administration just released new rules for applicants to the federal Charter Schools Program (CSP), which is supposed to help public charters with start-up expenses […]

March 24, 2022

By Laura Waters at March 24, 2022

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NJER Commentary

In Wall Township, Colleagues Told Him To Get a Holocaust Number Tattooed On His Arm

In 2016 Brandon Jacobs, a public works and tax collector’s office employee in Wall Township, filed a lawsuit against his Monmouth County municipality documenting a […]