January 15, 2026
New Jersey Education Commissioner Kevin Dehmer just announced (see press release below) that the Department of Education will take over Lakewood Public Schools. The ruling […]
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July 22, 2024
New Jerseyans have different ways of scoring how their local school districts function but our Department of Education has just one. You may have caught […]
November 9, 2023
After a quarter-century of state control, in 2017 Newark Public Schools finally got the green light to get our district back. This was cause for […]
February 15, 2023
When the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee interviews Mary Bennett, Gov. Phil Murphy’s nominee for the State Board of Education, members might want to ask […]
January 25, 2023
Shennell McCloud is CEO of Project Ready, a Newark-based nonprofit that works to increase voting in the city. Revelations that the contract of the Newark […]
November 30, 2022
A new paper from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, authored by Beth Schueler and Joshua Bleiberg and titled “The Education Exchange: Does State […]
November 2, 2022
Today the Star-Ledger Editorial Board reports that over this past eight months Newark school board members and top staffers have taken taxpayer-funded trips to Las […]
September 23, 2022
Yesterday Marilyn Roman published a very long analysis of the failings of New Jersey’s second largest school system. As a retired Jersey City educator, City […]
September 15, 2022
Editor’s Note: This is a press release from the Governor’s Office. Carly Sitrin of Politico NJ notes (in an article behind a paywall), “On its […]
September 14, 2022
Today during the New Jersey State Board of Education meeting, Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan recommended that the Board approve a resolution to return Jersey City Public […]
June 10, 2021
A new working paper out from Brown University studies the impact of state takeovers on 35 school districts. The authors, Drs. Beth E. Schueler and […]
May 17, 2021
Last week New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) released a “report” that tries to prove the state takeover of Camden Public Schools in 2013 didn’t result […]