January 6, 2021
This release is courtesy of InsiderNJ. For context, among the 25,000 students in the district, the average math proficiency score is 17% (versus the New Jersey public […]
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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 […]
December 11, 2020
Yesterday Governor Phil Murphy’s office and the New Jersey Department of Education made a joint announcement with great fanfare: They have created “Addressing Student Learning […]
December 8, 2020
This is testimony from JerseyCAN Executive Director Patricia Morgan, given yesterday at the Senate Education Committee’s hearing on Bill S3214. The bill mandates that Commissioner […]
December 2, 2020
For the last three years students, parents, teachers, and schools have been effectively abandoned by the New Jersey Department of Education. The mismanagement by former […]
November 18, 2020
According to Carly Sitrin of Politico (the full article is behind a paywall), Black students in New Jersey were suspended from school last year at […]
November 12, 2020
Over the last two weeks the New Jersey State Board of Education has approved two people to serve under new Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan, who heads […]
November 11, 2020
When I was seven months pregnant with my first baby I developed a condition called preeclampsia. It can be quite serious—once it was a leading […]
November 4, 2020
I’ve been clear — I’m hugely disappointed with the outcomes of the Department of Education. I’m sure they are trying their optimal best, but there […]
October 29, 2020
This is the third in a series on my changing views of publicly-funded vouchers to parochial and private schools. The first one is here and […]
October 26, 2020
Below is the preliminary statement from New Jersey State Deputy Attorney General Christopher Weber in a new brief in the State Supreme Court case regarding […]
October 26, 2020
We as a state, for whatever reason, erred on the side of less guidance for schools when more guidance was needed. That’s Sarah Mulhern Gross, […]