April 21, 2022
Tuesday was Election Day in Newark for the district’s Board of Education. Among seven candidates for three open seats, winners were incumbents A’Dorian Murray-Thomas and […]
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April 6, 2022
Last week news broke that 98% of Newark fourth-graders are not expected to meet state expectations in math this spring. This alarming projection didn’t come […]
February 16, 2022
Last week the Star-Ledger Editorial Board interviewed Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, whom some consider a likely gubernatorial candidate in 2025. (Alan Steinberg, for instance, says […]
February 7, 2022
I’m not sure if everyone has been reading their emails or seeing the reports in the news, but if things were not challenging enough, it […]
January 13, 2022
Every year for the past three years New Jersey Children’s Foundation* has commissioned the progressive polling firm Change Research to measure the opinions of registered […]
August 19, 2021
Shortly after Governor Murphy announced earlier this summer that all individuals aged 12 and older who live, work, or study in NJ are eligible for […]
July 7, 2021
Last week news broke that Newark Superintendent Roger León had been less than honest about learning loss among the 42,000 students who attend district schools. […]
February 1, 2021
I am sharing with you the rumblings I am now hearing about Newark Superintendent Roger León. After my last post I received a boatload of […]
November 23, 2020
Matt Friedman of Politico starts his Playbook this morning with a scoop: Sean Spiller, VP of New Jersey’s largest teacher union (NJEA) and Mayor of […]
September 21, 2020
After years of decreasing enrollment and a general lack of trust in its public schools, state data shows that Newark’s public schools have posted their fifth […]
August 10, 2020
“We literally have no news on education today,” Murphy said at his latest coronavirus press briefing in Trenton. Well, school leaders across New Jersey have […]
April 17, 2019
Here are two quotes that, for me, sum up yesterday’s school board election in Newark. Shayvonne Anderson, candidate on the Moving Newark Schools Forward slate, […]