Commentary

ANALYSIS: Two Percent of Newark 4th-Graders Will Meet Expectations in Math. Do We Blame Covid or Newark Leaders?

Last week news broke that 98% of Newark fourth-graders are not expected to meet state expectations in math this spring.…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Is Biden Really Trying To ‘Yank Students Out of Schools Their Parents Chose’? So Murphy.

The Biden Administration just released new rules for applicants to the federal Charter Schools Program (CSP), which is supposed to help…

3 years ago

In Wall Township, Colleagues Told Him To Get a Holocaust Number Tattooed On His Arm

In 2016 Brandon Jacobs, a public works and tax collector's office employee in Wall Township, filed a lawsuit against his…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: The Dog Ate Our Homework, Says Murphy’s Ed Department, and Here’s What’s Missing

Chalkbeat's Patrick Wall, an excellent reporter who covers Newark, has a piece today that delves into a set of segregation…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Hey, Pro-Murphy Anti-Charter Folk, Stop Using These Noble Kids To Push Your Corrupt Crusade

Monday's Star-Ledger featured an op-ed by two wonderful equity warriors, Kelly Ribeiro and Jordan Victor Wallace, high school students who…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Trenton Mothers Plead With Murphy, ‘Don’t Cut Our Children’s Wings’

Gov. Phil Murphy doesn’t understand why urban charter school parents are furious with him. Multiple outlets, from The Star-Ledger to…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Murphy’s Public Educational Politics Are Neither Strong Nor Fair

Gov. Phil Murphy loves to preach about his quest for a "stronger and fairer New Jersey" but, if recent events…

3 years ago

NJ Property Tax Payers, Be Grateful For Small Favors

John Reitmeyer reports today on the rousing success of New Jersey's 2 percent cap on municipal and school district tax…

3 years ago

What’s Up With the Optics of the Old White Lawyer Denying School Choice To the Black Mom?

NJ Spotlight News has a fine video up today that sheds some light on the Murphy Administration’s rejections of expansion…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: It’s Time for Murphy to Take Off His MAGA Hat

Gov. Phil Murphy says he supports “giving our children the education they need to succeed in a 21st century economy.”…

3 years ago