February 10, 2021
Newark Superintendent Roger León is ratcheting up his war on the city’s charter schools, which are responsible for Newark’s standing as the best-performing urban school district in […]
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January 27, 2021
What’s not to like about Montclair, New Jersey? Niche rates it “A+” for quality of life, Caldwell Banker calls it the “top destination for city […]
January 4, 2021
Jasmine Morrison is a parent activist in Newark with two sons in charter schools. For more coverage of her advocacy, see here, here, and here. […]
December 21, 2020
A new study from Oxford University in England, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and summarized here in Science, says that people with Down […]
December 17, 2020
Below are excerpts from a letter sent yesterday to the New Jersey Senate by a coaltion of advocates in support of Senate bill 3214. This […]
December 8, 2020
This is testimony from JerseyCAN Executive Director Patricia Morgan, given yesterday at the Senate Education Committee’s hearing on Bill S3214. The bill mandates that Commissioner […]
December 3, 2020
(This post first appeared in Newark Neighborhood View.) As you know from my previous blog posts, my daughter attends West Side High School. Over the […]
November 24, 2020
Sarah Carpenter, executive director of Memphis Lift, spent much of the 2020 primary season bringing her message — her plea—for liberation from failing schools to all […]
November 24, 2020
Tara Murphy is a SPAN Resource Parent, a Volunteer Advocacy Ambassador for Autism Speaks, member of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA), founder […]
November 20, 2020
I knew something was wrong when, during what was supposed to be a full day of remote learning, my thirteen-year-old son announced at 9:30 a.m. […]
November 17, 2020
Keith Benson, President of the Camden Education Association, has a petition on change.org demanding that NJEA “utilize its massive legal apparatus” to “challenge the legality” […]
November 4, 2020
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools just released the following statement on the 2020 election results: While the results of the 2020 election are […]