January 2, 2025
Paula White is the executive director of JerseyCAN. Previously, she served as a public school teacher and a statewide policy expert/chief turnaround officer at the […]
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December 17, 2024
John Migueis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the administrator of NJ21st.com, a platform dedicated to analyzing and reporting on municipal, education, and state […]
November 19, 2024
In the middle of the Senate Education Committee floor at the New Jersey Statehouse sits a small group of young people preparing to share their […]
October 18, 2024
Adeola Whitney is the CEO of Reading Partners Like many communities across the country, Newark is grappling with a concerning literacy crisis. Only 23 percent […]
September 25, 2024
A new national report prepared by the Brookings Institution’s Sofoklis Goulas on behalf of the Fordham Foundation finds that 500 chronically low-performing schools that are […]
September 18, 2024
Yesterday the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) released its 2024 State of the American Student report, which builds on two previous annual reports that […]
September 5, 2024
“We’ve been doing testing and accountability for like two decades, and the fact that you still have so much data that’s just missing, or even […]
September 3, 2024
In August 2024, thanks to long-time literacy champion Senate Leader Teresa Ruiz, as well as a host of education equity advocates like JerseyCAN, Gov. Phil […]
August 1, 2024
“Here I’m not a number, not a statistic.,” says Nataly Sanchez, recent graduate of LEAD Charter School in Newark. “My teachers always acknowledge us as […]
July 31, 2024
When the federal government allotted $190 billion to school districts throughout the nation in an attempt to address learning loss caused by Covid-19, Newark Public […]
July 29, 2024
A few months after Newark Public Schools revealed that third grade reading proficiency hadn’t budged at 19%, the same as the previous year, the school […]
July 17, 2024
Don’t call them high school dropouts. Call them “opportunity youth,” former students ages 16-21 who are not in school and don’t have jobs. Nationally, 20% […]