February 28, 2020
Once again it’s time to take a look at Asbury Park Public School District, which spends more per pupil ($42,382 total a year) than almost […]
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January 13, 2020
On Friday Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson made an important ruling in a lawsuit filed against the State of New Jersey by the New Jersey […]
September 17, 2019
In August Senator Sweeney wrote a letter to Comm. Repollet asking, among other things, whether the DOE has considered auditing Lakewood, NJ’s most insolvent district, […]
April 16, 2019
As we continue this ongoing series that deals, in part, with how Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet’s tenure at Asbury Park School District (APSD), as well […]
March 21, 2019
I was a school board member for twelve years, including nine years as president. I thought I’d seen it all, including fraught negotiations with unions. […]
October 18, 2018
When news broke last year that the FBI raided homes of 26 Lakewood ultra-Orthodox residents on charges of wrongfully collecting Medicaid, food stamps, SNAP, and […]
June 13, 2018
Here’s the aspiring interventionist, Deputy Assistant Education Commissioner Glenn Forney, doing the hard work of setting boundaries for the Lakewood Board of Education, specifically regarding its […]
May 15, 2018
This is a letter from Robert Beers, Superintendent of Manville Public Schools (Somerset County) that first appeared in Central Jersey. Another budget planning cycle has […]
April 19, 2018
Last week Rabbi Osher Eisemann, the founder of the School for Hidden Intelligence (SCHI), previously arrested for mere money-laundering, is now facing corruption charges. A year […]
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 […]
February 13, 2018
(This is a guest post by Tommy Luna, an 8th Grade Math Teacher and Grade Level Chair at KIPP’s Rise Academy in Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Luna […]
February 6, 2018
You have to have the parents of this district who are going to charter schools feel comfortable about coming here,” he said. “If they don’t, […]