February 3, 2023
News broke yesterday that the Murphy Administration’s Department of Education granted approval for 11 high-performing public charter schools to offer more grade levels and seats […]
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January 26, 2023
Kyle Rosenkrans is Executive Director of New Jersey Children’s Foundation. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lock-downs wreaked havoc on the health of Newark families, on […]
January 12, 2023
Today the Wall Street Journal has an editorial (paywalled) called “Why Does New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy Hate Charter Schools?” That’s a fair question: for […]
November 4, 2022
In 2018 when Superintendent Roger Leon first took over the helm of New Jersey’s largest school district, he inherited its universal enrollment system called Newark […]
November 4, 2022
This is a letter from Kyle Rosenkrans, Executive Director of New Jersey Children’s Foundation, to the Newark Board of Education and Roger Leon, Superintendent of […]
July 26, 2022
NJ Children’s Foundation Announces Grant To Send Newark Third and Fourth-Graders To Junior Olympics!
The New Jersey Children’s Foundation announced today that it would provide a $10,000 grant to KIPP Life Academy, ensuring its track and field team will […]
June 23, 2022
The research is clear: if school districts are serious about helping students recover from learning loss due to pandemic-interrupted schooling, the most important tool is […]
June 9, 2022
Earlier this week the Newark Municipal Council Education Committee quizzed Superintendent Roger León about district student learning loss; meanwhile an analysis found that Newark public […]
May 19, 2022
My Schools Newark announced today that it will host a school fair this Saturday, May 21st, from 10am-2pm at Military Park. The fair will assist […]
April 19, 2022
Michael J. Petrilli is the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. David Griffith is the institute’s associate director for research and the author of […]
March 21, 2022
Chalkbeat’s Patrick Wall, an excellent reporter who covers Newark, has a piece today that delves into a set of segregation lawsuits currently inching their way […]
February 9, 2022
Monday: @PhilMurphyNJ: “If it’s a high-quality top performing school, regardless of what school it is…we’ve never, ever, ever been, ‘Hell no to charters.” Tuesday: @PhilMurphyNJ […]