April 24, 2025
After two and a half years of failed mediation talks, the lawyers representing the plaintiffs in New Jersey’s school segregation have given up on a […]
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November 21, 2023
Here’s a data point for you: in the south end of my town where Lawrence bumps up against Trenton, if you live on the west […]
October 12, 2022
Today Mary Ann Koruth of The Record has a great update of a lawsuit currently before the state Superior Court in Mercer County pressed by […]
November 29, 2021
Last week South Orange-Maplewood Public School District made news by announcing that all students travelling beyond the tri-state area during the Thanksgiving break would have […]
January 5, 2021
This post, by Tim Evans, analyzes the relationship between school district fragmentation and the role it may play in fostering and maintaining a racially and […]
February 12, 2020
The notice at the bottom of this post was sent yesterday to all districts, charter schools, and hybrid renaissance schools by the Superior Court of […]
January 13, 2020
On Friday Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson made an important ruling in a lawsuit filed against the State of New Jersey by the New Jersey […]
May 15, 2015
“The charter school law needs to be rewritten in a thoughtful, comprehensive way. It’s been more than 20 years since the law was passed…I support […]
March 11, 2015
The Asbury Park Press Editorial Board thinks poorly of a bill, A 3079, just passed unanimously by the New Jersey Assembly, that would bar standardized testing […]
March 5, 2015
Here’s my new Newsworks column: This week many of New Jersey’s students took PARCC tests, the new computer-based standardized assessments aligned with the Common Core […]
February 23, 2015
Judging by NJEA and Save Our Schools-NJ websites and lobbying efforts, New Jersey parents are opting-out their children from PARCC tests in droves. Here’s NJEA […]
February 19, 2015
James A. Crisfield, superintendent of one of New Jersey’s highest-performing districts, Millburn Public Schools, has an editorial today in NJ Spotlight that makes a reasonable and […]