Is the Lakewood Board of Education Breaking State Law?

Today the Star-Ledger reports that Barry Iann, the President of the Lakewood Board of Education, quit on Monday night. He’s…

9 years ago

Chris Cerf Unplugged: Charter Schools, Phil Murphy, NJEA, and Save Our Schools-NJ

In an interview in today's Star-Ledger, Newark Superintendent and former New Jersey Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf discusses the threat…

9 years ago

Can You Cough Up $20K a Year? Welcome To The Top New Jersey “Public” Schools!

  Tuition Rates—2015-2016 RESOLVED, that the Board of Education approve the revised tuition rates for the 2015-2016 school year as…

9 years ago

This New Jersey Parent Summit Had Parents Fired Up and Ready to Go!

(This is a guest post from Quibila Divine, an education advocate who works tirelessly to ensure that all children are…

9 years ago

NJEA Battles Student Advocate Steve Sweeney on Teachers’ Dimes

I don’t know what you’re doing this afternoon from 4-6 but if your calendar is empty and you want to…

9 years ago

Phil Murphy Perfects the Pivot

"Pivoting" is an essential political skill when faced with a question you don't want to answer. While I am eager…

9 years ago

Is Randi Weingarten Correct that School Choice is A Form of Jim Crow?

Two weeks ago AFT President Randi Weingarten highlighted a new policy brief that showed how school vouchers were used during…

9 years ago

When Friends Say it Best: Black Voices on How the NAACP Has Lost its Way

(This post is by my dear pal and colleague Erika Sanzi. It was originally published on her blog, Good School…

9 years ago

The Grown-Up Version of PARCC: Can We Measure Up?

The New Jersey Department of Education just released our children's 2017 scores on the state standardized PARCC tests in language…

9 years ago

“For the First Time I Have Teachers Telling Me That Lisa is One Smart Kid”: A Parent’s Struggle with Dyslexia and Traditional Schools

(This is a guest post by Aggie Sung, a certified early education teacher whose passion is in children's books that…

9 years ago