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COMMENTARY: Education Law Center’s Magic Elixir of Integration Won’t Help Newark’s Black Families

Today Chalkbeat has a piece dissecting a current lawsuit, pressed by Education Law Center (ELC), that charges Newark’s charter sector…

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Jersey City Teacher to Four Black Students: ‘George Floyd Was a F–King Criminal’

“I hear people whining and crying about Black Lives Matter, but George Floyd was a f---ing criminal and he got…

4 years ago

Charter Schools Do Not Take Money From Other Public Schools, Say Petrilli and Lee

What do Gov. Phil Murphy and Acting Department of Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan have against public charter schools? More specifically,…

4 years ago

Judge Orders Trenton Teachers Back to School; Union Lawyer Compares District to ‘Saddam Hussein’s Regime’

Last Friday the Trenton Board of Education filed a lawsuit in Superior Court of New Jersey because teachers are refusing…

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Newark Public Schools, Traditional and Charter, Celebrate Their Best-In-The-State Rankings

Here are two press releases, one from Newark Public Schools celebrating that U.S. News & World Report ranked two of…

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I’ll Wheel You a Principal If You Deal Me a Job: Live Tonight from Asbury Park

Welcome to a New Jersey school district so ridden with nepotism, exorbitance, and a singular disregard for student outcomes that…

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Camden & Trenton School Leaders Hail Biden’s ‘American Family Plan’ as Transformational for Students Nationwide

Educational experts and public charter school leaders in New Jersey today released statements on President Biden’s proposed American Family Plan…

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Trenton School Board Sues Teachers to Force In-School Instruction

This past Friday the Trenton Board of Education filed a lawsuit in Superior Court of New Jersey because teachers are…

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Dramatic Drop in Newark Students Applying to College–Except For Two Types of Public Schools

The pandemic takes its educational toll in countless ways and one of them is a dramatic drop in Newark high…

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NJCF Statement on Education Law Center’s Legal Attack on Newark Charter School Families

This is a press release from the New Jersey Children's Foundation.* At risk today is the fate of 8,500 children…

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