February 4, 2020
Boy, I bet you didn’t expect to see that headline from me. I just can’t help myself: After Newark Superintendent Roger Leon —with no guidance […]
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January 16, 2020
Yesterday New Jersey Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet sent out a tweet celebrating the state’s new jobs initiative, “Jobs NJ: Developing Talent to Grow Business in […]
January 7, 2020
Below is a letter sent late yesterday from the New Jersey Children’s Foundation expressing the non-profit’s “vehement disagreement with the four letters submitted by the […]
January 6, 2020
Last week Newark Superintendent Roger Leon wrote a letter to New Jersey Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet demanding that Repollet, NJ’s sole charter authorizer, not renew […]
December 16, 2019
Last week I wrote about the dilemma facing the New Jersey State Board of Education: To accept a low-ball standardized testing proposal from accountability-averse Commissioner […]
December 10, 2019
We Raise New Jersey just issued a statement about a critical decision facing the State Board of Education: Does the Board defer to Gov. Murphy […]
November 12, 2019
Two weeks ago New Jersey’s NAEP scores came out and they weren’t pretty. These national tests, often referred to as the “gold standard” and “The […]
November 7, 2019
Today New Jersey parents woke up to their annual smack in the face: All public schools are closed today and tomorrow, the first Thursday and […]
November 4, 2019
Gov. Phil Murphy just announced a statewide “Computer Science for All” plan that allocates $2 million in state grants “to help schools establish advanced, high-quality […]
October 22, 2019
Yesterday the State Board of Education (with the exception of bold Vice President Andy Mulvihill) folded to pressure and voted 12-1 to eliminate the 10th […]
October 17, 2019
This is an guest post by Patricia Morgan, Executive Director of JerseyCAN and Shelley Skinner, Executive Director of Better Education for Kids. It first appeared […]
October 16, 2019
I got back yesterday from the 11th annual New Jersey Charter School Association Convention, which celebrates the school leaders and teachers who serve 55,000 students […]