April 25, 2024
Two sets of New Jersey school ratings are out and, to no one’s surprise, the top schools on the lists from U.S. News and World […]
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April 17, 2024
Last week the New York Times published an article on the current scandal in South Orange-Maplewood Public Schools District (SOMA): In January the school board […]
April 10, 2024
A new bill proposal, the “New Jersey Student Support Act,” would offer tax credits to taxpayers and companies in order to provide grants for students’ […]
March 22, 2024
Whatever your view of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka as New Jersey’s next governor–he declared his candidacy last month—he deserves props for his willingness to call […]
March 20, 2024
A just-released report from New America’s Education Funding Equity Initiative measures how school district boundaries create deep “economic and social divisions” and “radically different educational […]
March 11, 2024
Four years ago Gov. Phil Murphy authorized a review of what New Jersey did right and did wrong during COVID-19. The result, just released, is […]
February 22, 2024
JerseyCAN, the only statewide advocacy organization in New Jersey committed to ensuring access to high-quality public schools for every child regardless of zip code, cultural […]
February 14, 2024
Last week one of the top colleges in the nation, Dartmouth College, announced it was reversing its 2020 decision to make SAT or ACT scores […]
February 8, 2024
Tom Moran is the Editorial Page Editor at the Star-Ledger, where this first appeared. To many people in New Jersey, it is an article of […]
January 10, 2024
During yesterday’s State of the State address, Gov. Phil Murphy claimed, in the context of his push for reforming reading instruction, “New Jersey has the […]
January 5, 2024
If the Senate Judiciary Committee appears to be slow-walking Gov. Phil Murphy’s nominees for the State Board of Education—this is the first time in 20 […]
January 3, 2024
Chris Cerf was Superintendent of Newark Public Schools and New Jersey’s Commissioner of Education. In the latter roll he oversaw 2,500 public schools, 1.4 million […]