June 27, 2019
On Monday night the Lakewood Board of Education held a public meeting that, per tradition, didn’t lack for theatrics. When Governor Phil Murphy handed his […]
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June 20, 2019
On Tuesday, right after I put up this post, Lakewood Public Schools’ attorney Michael Inzelbuch filed an emergency motion to stop implementation of the budget […]
June 18, 2019
There’s lots of coverage today on the New Jersey State Legislature’s rewrite of the Governor’s budget. Murphy included a millionaire’s tax and $250 million in […]
May 7, 2019
A week ago our Commissioner of Education Lamont Repollet testified before the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee. I wrote about this last week, noting that […]
May 1, 2019
Yesterday at the New Jersey Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing, N.J. Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet responded to questions about Gov. Murphy’s school budget. But […]
March 13, 2019
Let’s say you’re a New Jersey parent of a current 10th grader. Your child, like one-third of New Jersey students, took Algebra 1 in 8th […]
February 27, 2019
Various news outlets are reporting on a second scandal (the first was Al Alvarez) at the School Development Authority, the agency that manages about $11 […]
February 22, 2019
True confession: I started writing a post a few days ago on the demise of an important piece of legislation, Senate Bill 3381, that would […]
February 21, 2019
Last week I wrote about the disparities in pay between rank and file educators and those who work in the offices of NJEA, N.J.’s largest […]
January 7, 2019
The New Jersey Globe recently published its annual “Year in Review,” a listing of Garden State political winners and losers, as well as a set […]
January 3, 2019
An article in Tuesday’s Trentonian recounts interviews with Trenton Central High School students, almost all Black, Hispanic, and poor, who are stuck in a district […]
December 13, 2018
I have the lead piece in The 74 today on how two veteran New Jersey teachers are trying to resign from the state’s teacher union, […]