May 3, 2024
Save Our Schools-New Jersey, once widely in the news for opposing public charter schools and PARCC testing, is at it again. As part of its […]
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May 2, 2023
Last fall Gov. Phil Murphy announced that, in response to the mental health crisis among students, he was ordering the New Jersey Department of Children […]
March 23, 2023
Today the Murphy Administration’s Department of Education announced that they’ve cancelled the fall Start Strong statewide assessments. These tests were given first in Fall 2021 […]
October 21, 2022
Gov. Phil Murphy is the target of much criticism for his what these legislators in the press release below call an “absurd proposal” to eliminate […]
July 19, 2022
In spite of blowback from a member of the New Jersey State Board of Education and other allies, the Murphy Administration’s Department of Education (DOE) […]
May 18, 2022
Well, well, well, as night follows day, a NJEA political organizer cycles into the Murphy administration as a senior officer and then cycles right back […]
January 7, 2022
There’s plenty to complain about New Jersey’s “media desert,” sandwiched as we are between those two behemoths New York City and Philadelphia, but let’s give […]
September 6, 2019
Yesterday I reacted to the news, revealed during Wednesday’s State Board of Education meeting, that student achievement, as measured by standardized tests, flat-lined after four […]
March 5, 2019
Today Gov. Phil Murphy gave his 2019 budget address. He’s proposing, as part of this 38.6 billion spending plan, an additional $351 million as the […]
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 7, 2019
At 1:00 today, the the New Jersey Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee will consider Bill 3381, sponsored by Senator Teresa Ruiz, who is Chair of […]
January 28, 2019
I’ve often wondered to what degree Gov. Phil Murphy’s agenda is driven by the wonts of NJEA, New Jersey’s primary teacher union. After all, his […]