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December 18, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 18, 2023

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Chaos and Misconduct Reign at Asbury Park’s Middle School

Chaos reigns at Asbury Park’s Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School (MLKMS). Staff members tell NJ Education Report there are students who race down hallways, […]

December 18, 2023

By Guest Contributor at December 18, 2023

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News
Opinion

A New Education Commissioner and a Reconstituted State Board of Education: More Politics at Play

Dr. Marc Gaswirth, a retired public school administrator, has written extensively for more than 40 years about public sector bargaining and school human resources. In […]

December 18, 2023

By NJER Newsroom at December 18, 2023

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News

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 […]

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 […]