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December 20, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 20, 2023

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News

New Jersey Ranks Last In the U.S. For Including Students With Disabilities

At a panel discussion hosted by ROI, Fred Buglione, CEO of the New Jersey Coalition for Inclusive Education (NJCIE), dropped a bombshell: “New Jersey is […]

December 20, 2023

By Michael Lilley, Sunlight Policy Center at December 20, 2023

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News
Opinion

How Does NJEA’s Push for a ‘Progressive’ State Board of Ed Help Teachers?

NJEA President Sean Spiller is using the NJEA’s well-bought influence with Gov. Murphy and the Democratic legislature to try to turn the State Board of […]

December 19, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 19, 2023

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SCOOP: Divided Senate Committee Approves Murphy’s State Board of Education Nominee. Sort Of.

Yesterday, during the New Jersey Legislature’s lame-duck session, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved Gov. Phil Murphy’s nomination of Mary Bennett to the State Board of […]

December 19, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 19, 2023

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New Report on the Status of NJ’s Charter School Sector

A new study from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools finds that, across the country, enrollment in traditional district schools is down 3% (1.5 […]

December 19, 2023

By NJER Newsroom at December 19, 2023

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News

New Bipartisan Bill Would Teach Students to Deal With Grief

“Mental health has become a crisis in our nation,” said Senator Jon Bramnick (R-21). “This legislation may be helpful when explaining the effects of loss […]

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, […]

COMMUNITIES

August 24, 2023

By Laura Waters at August 24, 2023

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JerseyCAN Pleads With Murphy Administration to Leverage Literacy So Students Learn To Read

JerseyCAN pulls no punches in its latest report, “Leveraging Literacy: The Path to Education Recovery in New Jersey.” Looking closely at reading levels of New […]

August 23, 2023

By Laura Waters at August 23, 2023

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Newark
News

Two Newark Teachers Promise Legal Action Against District’s Failure To Protect Black Educators

Tammy Davis and Nubia Lumumba, English teachers at Newark’s School of Global Studies. resigned at the end of last school year due to “harassment and […]

August 22, 2023

By Laura Waters at August 22, 2023

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Doing the Math in Asbury Park

Here are two take-aways from Asbury Park Board of Education’s meeting last month. First, Statistics aren’t reliable when they’re crafted duplicitously and without context. Second, […]

OPINION

June 8, 2022

By Contributor at June 8, 2022

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Opinion

GOODMAN: High-Stakes Tests Don’t Help Students Learn. Why Don’t We Try This New Model Instead?

Ten years ago Robert Goodman, the Executive Director of the New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning (NJCTL), wrote a paper exploring a new way […]

June 6, 2022

By Paula White at June 6, 2022

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WHITE: For Vanessa, And All Our Vanessas To Come

When bureaucratic shenanigans and red tape play Russian roulette with children’s lives, we all suffer. I was reminded of this by a recent LinkedIn inbox […]

June 3, 2022

By Laura Waters at June 3, 2022

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COMMENTARY: Murphy Treats Low-Income Families as Political Footballs As He Shuts Down Their Best Schools

Late yesterday Acting Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan sent a letter to Newark’s University Heights Charter School that decreed, based on “subjective conclusions reported from one […]