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May 3, 2024
Save Our Schools-New Jersey, once widely in the news for opposing public charter schools and PARCC testing, is at it again. As part of its […]
June 15, 2023
This article was originally published by The 74. For almost a decade, Newark Public Schools, New Jersey’s largest district, was celebrated for its universal enrollment system that […]
May 10, 2023
Chris Cerf is the former superintendent of Newark Public Schools and the former New Jersey commissioner of education. He serves on the board of ExcelinEd, a […]
April 27, 2023
Public education, by definition, is political. After all, the Greek word polis refers to forms of power relations among individuals and city-states; when you’re dealing […]
January 23, 2023
Newark Superintendent Roger Leon is under a harsh spotlight as the district endures a growing list of revelations that would make any social justice advocate […]
November 15, 2022
Newark Superintendent Roger Leon is on a spending spree, a newly-styled real estate magnate with plenty of money to burn given the district’s $1.2 billion […]
October 6, 2022
Or maybe he’s just nostalgic for the good old days when Newark Public Schools District was on the hook for maintaining multiple buildings with no […]
January 13, 2022
Every year for the past three years New Jersey Children’s Foundation* has commissioned the progressive polling firm Change Research to measure the opinions of registered […]
January 7, 2022
Update: Score one up for Politico, one down for North Jersey Media. Today Carly Sitrin reports that Murphy will renominate Acting Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan […]
March 26, 2021
Governor Phil Murphy, who announced Wednesday that starting in September all schools must be full-time in-person, is getting some blowback. Example: at a school board […]
December 15, 2020
This following note was sent to NJ Left Behind by a New Jersey Department of Education staff member who wishes to remain anonymous. In this […]