NJ Education Report

Make sure to read Paul Tractenberg’s essay at NJ Spotlight on our “apartheid” school system. Tractenberg, founder of Education Law Center, writes, ” 26 percent of all black students and almost 13 percent of the rapidly growing Latino population attended apartheid schools and another 21.4 percent and 29.2 percent, respectively, were in intensely segregated schools. That means almost half of all black students and more than 40 percent of all Latino students in New Jersey attend schools that are overwhelmingly segregated. ” Tractenberg frames the problem eloquently, even if towards the end he veers off into anti-Christie venom. Also note his bold proposal for county-wide school districts, with Essex as a pilot.

The Courier Post reports that in south Jersey “school officials are already making plans to push back graduation dates, and the threat of future storms could mean shorter spring breaks.” Ditto for the rest of the Garden State, right?