EXPLAINER: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and How It Shows Up in Your Child’s Classroom

WHAT IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY? Critical race theory (sometimes abbreviated to CRT) is an intellectual approach to looking at U.S. society…

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What’s Good Enough for Asbury Park Students Isn’t Good Enough for the Top Brass: Asbestos, Anyone?

What is the Asbury Park School Board thinking? It’s awfully hard to tell and its nine members are not a…

5 years ago

Whistleblower Calls Foul: This NJ Department of Education Teacher-Training Program Is Bogus

This is a guest editorial by a staff member of the New Jersey Department of Education who wishes to remain…

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Camden Prep Parent of Special Needs Student Thankful for Planning Board Approval of High School

LaKeisha Scott is a Camden resident and mother of  "miracle baby" Ja'leel, a student with multiple disabilities. The Camden Planning…

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Newark Leaders Are AWOL As Parents Demand Information on Learning Loss

Last week news broke that Newark Superintendent Roger León had been less than honest about learning loss among the 42,000…

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MCKENNA: Are Autism Advocates Too ‘Woke’?

Laura McKenna is an education writer based in New Jersey. You can find her here (www.lauramckenna.com). This article was originally…

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What’s Behind Murphy’s No-Masks-in-School Stance?

On May 24th Gov. Phil Murphy announced on Morning Joe that all students would be wearing masks in school in…

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New Report: New Jersey in Last Place for Nonwhite Student Access to in-School Learning

A new paper out from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms that students in school districts that…

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LILLEY: Roger León Should Go

In an excellent piece of investigative journalism by Patrick Wall of Chalkbeat, “The pandemic set back student learning. Newark kept the…

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Newark Superintendent Tries Smoke and Mirrors to Hide Extent of Student Learning Loss

Back in March the non-profit JerseyCAN commissioned a report to quantify learning loss among New Jersey students during the pandemic.…

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