December 7, 2020
Today the New Jersey Senate Education Committee is meeting for a full day of hearings on thirteen bills. (See list below.) InsiderNJ is reporting that […]
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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 […]
October 19, 2020
Last week I interviewed Karega Rausch, the new Executive Director of the non-partisan National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA). Why should you care? Because […]
September 14, 2020
A few notes from last Thursday’s State Senate Budget Committee hearing, with Interim Department of Education Commissioner Kevin Dehmer in the hot seat, poor soul. […]
May 4, 2020
I’ve spent a fair bit of time recently on Asbury Park Public Schools at the behest of residents and staff members who have asked me […]
February 25, 2020
This morning the Lakewood Board of Education held a meeting in the high school auditorium for representatives from 127 private ultra-Orthodox Jewish day schools to […]
February 20, 2020
Today, the New Jersey Charter Schools Association (NJCSA) and JerseyCAN released a report titled, Include All Public Schools In Facilities Funding: $900 million needed to […]
January 22, 2020
It is deeply troubling that public charter and renaissance schools are singled out as the only schools in New Jersey being denied access to critical […]
December 10, 2019
We Raise New Jersey just issued a statement about a critical decision facing the State Board of Education: Does the Board defer to Gov. Murphy […]
November 7, 2019
Today New Jersey parents woke up to their annual smack in the face: All public schools are closed today and tomorrow, the first Thursday and […]
July 24, 2019
This morning I got a call from Lakewood Public Schools attorney Michael Inzelbuch. He asked that I clarify an article in the Asbury Park Press, […]
July 15, 2019
On Friday I wrote a post that described Lakewood Board of Education’s July 1st meeting when the Board shut down the school district because the […]