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February 8, 2024

By Laura Waters at February 8, 2024

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The DOE and Lakewood: Perfect Together

Today’s headlines feature two news stories that are seemingly unrelated but actually overlap. First, NJ Spotlight examines how the New Jersey Department of Education has […]

February 8, 2024

By Guest Contributor at February 8, 2024

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Local Control or School Integration? New Jersey Must Choose.

Tom Moran is the Editorial Page Editor at the Star-Ledger, where this first appeared. To many people in New Jersey, it is an article of […]

February 8, 2024

By Laura Waters at February 8, 2024

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Asbury Park Leaders Fail To Stifle the Noise

Earlier this week Asbury Park Education Association president John Napolitani sent an email (below) to all APEA members explaining why he and another APEA officer […]

February 7, 2024

By Laura Waters at February 7, 2024

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News

Correction for Sen. Gopal: New Jersey Should Be Like Mississippi

Earlier this week during a discussion-only joint session of the Senate and Assembly education committees about teacher shortages and how New Jersey certifies aspiring teachers, […]

February 7, 2024

By Guest Contributor at February 7, 2024

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With Camden School Board President Facing Sexual Abuse Charges, Local Control Will Wait

The South Jersey Editorial Board first published this here. What’s going on with Camden’s school board? It’s a good thing they don’t do anything important, […]

February 7, 2024

By Laura Waters at February 7, 2024

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New Research Shows That New Jersey Remains Significantly Behind 2019 Achievement Levels in Math

If New Jersey manages to continue improving at last year’s rate of recovery, it will take an additional three years (after this one) for students […]

COMMUNITIES

November 29, 2023

By NJER Newsroom at November 29, 2023

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Newark Public Schools Announces Entrepreneurial Success in National Business Plan Competition

This year marked a significant milestone for South 17th Street School and West Side High School students as they competed in the Annual Youth Business […]

November 27, 2023

By Laura Waters at November 27, 2023

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Three Years After Landmark Donation, St. Benedict’s Prep Continues to Grow its Girls Division

It seems like a blink since Lucia Gallo was in eighth grade, sitting in the cafeteria at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark. The topic […]

November 22, 2023

By Laura Waters at November 22, 2023

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Asbury Park Teachers Call Out ‘Brutalized’ Staff and Students’ Lack of Learning

Late yesterday members of the Asbury Park Education Association received this email from their teacher union leaders: “On behalf of the entire APEA membership, I […]

OPINION

December 1, 2022

By Michael Lilley, Sunlight Policy Center at December 1, 2022

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LILLEY: NJEA Leadership Funds Gov. Murphy’s Presidential Ambitions with New Jersey Teachers’ Highest-in-the-Nation Dues

The New Jersey Globe reported that the pro-Murphy, dark money Super PAC “Stronger Fairer Forward,” which is run by Murphy’s wife, contributed “more than $300,000” to various Democratic […]

November 29, 2022

By Michael Lilley, Sunlight Policy Center at November 29, 2022

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LILLEY: JerseyCAN and Urban League of Essex County Organize a Forum on Learning Loss While Murphy, NJEA Remain AWOL

To the everlasting shame of Gov. Murphy and New Jersey’s largest teachers union, the NJEA, it has been left to two New Jersey non-profits, JerseyCan […]

November 28, 2022

By Laura Waters at November 28, 2022

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Wednesday’s Forum Will Highlight Murphy Administration’s Dishonesty About Student Learning Loss

Last month we reported New Jersey was one of nine states in the country that hadn’t released student test results from last spring’s standardized tests […]