March 31, 2021
One week ago today, Gov. Phil Murphy announced that all public schools must be back in September for full-time in-school instruction. At a press conference […]
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March 30, 2021
Students in New Jersey school districts — primarily large urban ones — have been home for 13 months and, given the just-issued report on learning […]
March 30, 2021
Laura McKenna is a New Jersey parent of two teenage boys, one currently studying at Rutgers University and the other a high school student with […]
March 29, 2021
Before I talk about how happy I am that our kids will be going back to school, I want to start with a quote from […]
March 26, 2021
Governor Phil Murphy, who announced Wednesday that starting in September all schools must be full-time in-person, is getting some blowback. Example: at a school board […]
March 19, 2021
While some North Jersey families are filing lawsuits and holding rallies to get schools to reopen, others are getting creative. I spoke to one parent, […]
March 16, 2021
A picture is indeed worth a thousand words, and this one of NJEA Vice President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller and Montclair Education Association (MEA) President Petal […]
March 10, 2021
Below is a letter sent yesterday from South Orange-Maplewood School District to parents regarding a 5 and 1/2 hour meeting last week between school board […]
March 9, 2021
Eighty-five percent of parents whose children attend elementary schools in Verona Public Schools (Essex County) want schools to reopen for live instruction. And, frustrated with […]
March 4, 2021
Laura McKenna is a New Jersey parent of two teenage boys, one currently studying at Rutgers University and the other a high school student with […]
March 3, 2021
“I herewith specifically do NOT give consent to the use of goguardian on my son’s devices! Coming from a cultural background with back-to-back totalitarian regimes […]
February 25, 2021
I’ve been an empty nester since the pandemic began — happily free of the burden of managing children’s virtual learning along with all the other […]