July 7, 2022
Kara Brockett is the director of special education at KIPP: Newark. She has worked with students with disabilities for over 20 years, as a teacher […]
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June 29, 2022
Today the New Jersey State Legislature will approve Gov. Phil Murphy’s $50.6 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins Friday, July 1st, about $4 […]
June 24, 2022
Julie Mower is Executive Director of The Phoenix Center in Nutley, NJ. Ashley Agresti began her career at The Phoenix Center at the age of […]
June 22, 2022
The National Association of Public Charter Schools just released new findings that show “education could become a single voter issue among parents, regardless of political […]
June 9, 2022
Earlier this week the Newark Municipal Council Education Committee quizzed Superintendent Roger León about district student learning loss; meanwhile an analysis found that Newark public […]
June 2, 2022
When my youngest child, Jonah, was four years old and attending a private special education school paid for by our local school district, we got […]
June 1, 2022
Laura McKenna is an education writer based in New Jersey. You can find her at www.lauramckenna.com. This was originally published at Laura McKenna’s Newsletter, Apt. 11D. When the […]
May 16, 2022
At Elizabeth Board of Education’s public meeting last Thursday, racist social media posts by Superintendent Olga Hugelmeyer’s husband weren’t the only sore spot. During the […]
May 13, 2022
Last night’s Elizabeth Board of Education meeting was raucous and chaotic, coming on the heels of explosive accusations by a former special education teacher. Yet […]
May 12, 2022
‘Doing Less Was Not an Option.’ How One New Jersey Charter School Kept Kids Learning No Matter What.
Note: Achievers Early College Prep is one of seven high-performing public charters with previously-approved expansions that the Murphy Administration’s Education Department recently reversed. Currently 90 […]
May 10, 2022
Last month, say new charges, a teacher’s aide assigned to students with disabilities pushed a seven-year-old boy down a flight of stairs at Quitman School […]
May 6, 2022
At last night’s public meeting of the Elizabeth Board of Education, former special education teacher Luann Breese charged school board members and Superintendent Olga Hugelmeyer […]