June 14, 2022
At a Goldman Sachs conference in April of 2017, a month before Phil Murphy declared his candidacy for New Jersey governor, a former governor’s wife […]
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June 6, 2022
This is a statement from Harry Lee, President & CEO, New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association, on Acting Commissioner of Education’s decision to close Newark’s […]
June 3, 2022
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 […]
June 3, 2022
(This is a press release from the New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association.) On June 1, the families of nearly 700 students learned that their […]
May 18, 2022
In June 1972, the New Jersey Department of Education issued a report called “Teachers’ Strikes in Newark, 1964-1971.” The document includes a timeline that details […]
April 12, 2022
Let’s start with a history lesson: in 1882, before computers, software engineering, and artificial intelligence were even a glint in the nation’s eye, a group […]
April 1, 2022
Most recently, in “Murphy Just Put a Ceiling on my Daughter’s Future,” I wrote about the developing educational crisis here in New Jersey. Thanks to […]
March 21, 2022
According to parents and students, racism is alive and well at Central Regional School DIstrict in Ocean County where 70% of students are white and […]
March 7, 2022
Central Regional School District is a small two-school district in Ocean County serving 2,800 students grades 7-12. Recently this district, in the Bayville section of […]
March 1, 2022
In early February 2022, Gov. Murphy’s Department of Education abruptly denied the long-planned expansion of two high-performing public charter schools in Trenton, NJ. In this […]
March 1, 2022
Gov. Phil Murphy doesn’t understand why urban charter school parents are furious with him. Multiple outlets, from The Star-Ledger to the Washington Post (yours truly […]
February 28, 2022
You all know I wear a lot of hats. Housing developer. Community activist. Political observer. But by far my most important role is that of […]