January 26, 2023
If you’re like most (all?) New Jerseyans I know, you wish our state school system wasn’t the sixth-most segregated in the country. If you’re like […]
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January 6, 2023
A new report from Rutgers’ New Jersey State Policy Lab examines high school students’ enrollment in math courses in New Jersey schools. (See here for […]
July 25, 2022
Today Carly Sitrin of Politico has an article about the South Orange-Maplewood district’s transportation mess, with angry parents crowding school board meetings to complain that […]
July 20, 2022
South Orange-Maplewood Public Schools District (SOMA) is known for its fine schools with students performing well above state averages. Like Montclair, also in Essex County, […]
April 20, 2022
Yesterday the New Jersey Monitor had a fine piece on the Garden State’s long struggle to integrate schools, currently the subject of a lawsuit. One […]
April 4, 2022
Sonia C. Park is the executive director of the Diverse Charter Schools Coalition. Harry Lee is the president and CEO of the New Jersey Public Charter Schools […]
March 21, 2022
Chalkbeat’s Patrick Wall, an excellent reporter who covers Newark, has a piece today that delves into a set of segregation lawsuits currently inching their way […]
March 10, 2022
Monday’s Star-Ledger featured an op-ed by two wonderful equity warriors, Kelly Ribeiro and Jordan Victor Wallace, high school students who attend New Jersey’s selective magnet […]
October 14, 2021
Why do “school choice” advocates never advocate eliminating school district boundaries/funding schools by local property tax and allowing poor, Black students to attend white, wealthy […]
October 13, 2021
Tuesday evening incumbent Democrat Phil Murphy and challenger Jack Ciattarelii duked it out at Rowan University at Glassboro for their second and final debate before […]
October 8, 2021
Mark Weber (aka Jersey Jazzman) loves to write about low-income students of color in New Jersey and how their academic trajectory is hurt by efforts […]
September 17, 2021
Bruce Baker and Mark Weber have another paper out at New Jersey Policy Perspective where they report (accurately) that systemic, structural racism disadvantages students of […]