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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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 […]
March 2, 2023
A new analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research sheds some light on an ongoing lawsuit pressed by the New Jersey Coalition for Diverse […]
January 26, 2023
If you’re like most (all?) New Jerseyans I know, you wish our state school system wasn’t the sixth-most segregated in the country. If you’re like […]
July 25, 2022
Today Carly Sitrin of Politico has an article about the South Orange-Maplewood district’s transportation mess, with angry parents crowding school board meetings to complain that […]
July 20, 2022
South Orange-Maplewood Public Schools District (SOMA) is known for its fine schools with students performing well above state averages. Like Montclair, also in Essex County, […]
April 20, 2022
Yesterday the New Jersey Monitor had a fine piece on the Garden State’s long struggle to integrate schools, currently the subject of a lawsuit. One […]
April 4, 2022
Sonia C. Park is the executive director of the Diverse Charter Schools Coalition. Harry Lee is the president and CEO of the New Jersey Public Charter Schools […]
March 10, 2022
Monday’s Star-Ledger featured an op-ed by two wonderful equity warriors, Kelly Ribeiro and Jordan Victor Wallace, high school students who attend New Jersey’s selective magnet […]
May 6, 2021
Today Chalkbeat has a piece dissecting a current lawsuit, pressed by Education Law Center (ELC), that charges Newark’s charter sector with exacerbating segregation and seeks […]
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 […]
August 14, 2019
This is a guest post by Sonia Park, Executive Director of Diverse Charter Schools Coalition. She has has over 18 years of experience in school […]