August 12, 2020
It’s been two years since I began covering the deterioration of the New Jersey Department of Education under the commissioner appointed by Governor Murphy, Lamont Repollet. […]
August 12, 2020
According to a source who spoke to Advance Media, New Jersey’s nearly 600 school districts will not be able to simply chose to go all-remote, […]
August 12, 2020
At 1:00 this afternoon Governor Phil Murphy will hold a press conference with Interim Education Commissioner Kevin Dehmer. According to reports, Murphy will backtrack from […]
August 11, 2020
Yesterday I wrote of an accelerating pattern of school districts defying direct mandates from Phil Murphy and the state Department of Education by choosing to […]
August 10, 2020
“We literally have no news on education today,” Murphy said at his latest coronavirus press briefing in Trenton. Well, school leaders across New Jersey have […]
August 10, 2020
This is a letter from Harry Lee, President of the New Jersey Charter School Association, dated today, to Kevin Dehmer, Interim Commissioner of the New […]
August 6, 2020
Here’s a scenario you might not have considered: If New Jersey schools do reopen for in-school instruction this year, some unknown number of traditional district […]
August 6, 2020
Last week I wrote a post about a new group called NJ21United that, from all appearances, seems to be soley focused on protesting the reopening […]
August 5, 2020
Governor Phil Murphy is trying to juggle the academic needs of schoolchildren, valid health concerns of teachers, and a sudden uptick of Covid-19 cases as […]
July 30, 2020
It’s not a secret how all this should work. When anticipating prolonged school closures, states need to set clear expectations for the quality of learning […]