March 6, 2024
New Jersey’s leaders—Gov. Phil Murphy, former Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-Mcmillan, NJEA president Sean Spiller— love to proclaim that New Jersey has the best schools in […]
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January 21, 2021
Randal Pinkett is a Newark businessman and the first African-American student from Rutgers to win a Rhodes Scholarship. He’s also unafraid to call out the […]
April 17, 2020
We’re about 5 weeks into our coronavirus lock-down in New Jersey, about a month since much of America has embarked on a national experiment of […]
March 23, 2020
I live right off Route 206, a mostly two-lane road that begins in the Pinelands of southern New Jersey, winds 130 miles north to Stokes […]
February 26, 2019
Over the weekend the Star-Ledger published a list of high schools with “surprisingly low scores” on school quality. Unlike the algorithms used by sites like […]
May 1, 2018
Just one year ago the Hoboken Public Schools District (HPSD) was locked in a years-long battle with one of the state’s most successful charter schools, […]
March 23, 2018
When my husband Dennis and I were getting ready to move from upstate New York to a new home within a reasonable commuting distance to […]
December 1, 2017
(This is a guest post by Aggie Sung, a certified early education teacher whose passion is in children’s books that teach young learners to express […]
November 30, 2017
The Civil Rights Project has a new academic paper out called “New Jersey’s Segregated Schools Trends and Paths Forward,” a follow-up to a report on […]
October 25, 2017
(This is a guest post by Aggie Sung, a certified early education teacher whose passion is in children’s books that teach young learners to express […]
August 14, 2017
In an interview in today’s Star-Ledger, Newark Superintendent and former New Jersey Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf discusses the threat of a charter school moratorium, […]
August 10, 2017
Tuition Rates—2015-2016 RESOLVED, that the Board of Education approve the revised tuition rates for the 2015-2016 school year as follows: Elementary Schools Pre-K Full-Day […]