January 11, 2023

State Charter Association Awards Grants to Top-Performing Schools That Serve Needy Families–Contingent on Murphy’s Education Department’s Response

Ed. Note: Two of the three schools receiving these grants—Trenton’s Achievers Early Charter School and Paul Robeson Charter School—were denied expansion plans last year, despite […]
COMMUNITIES
February 16, 2022

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Why Murphy Should Have Mandated Covid Vaccinations in Schools

Last week the Star-Ledger Editorial Board interviewed Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, whom some consider a likely gubernatorial candidate in 2025. (Alan Steinberg, for instance, says […]
OPINION
November 5, 2020

LILLEY: NJ Taxpayers Need to Know NJEA Used Political Power to Create the Pension System It Wanted.

At long last, New Jersey has enacted its first COVID-19 budget. In order for it to be “balanced,” the state will have to borrow $4.5 billion. […]