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COMMENTARY: What Does Education Law Center Have Against 8,500 Newark Schoolchildren?

Today the Education Law Center is back in court, once again fighting parents who want to have alternatives to traditional…

4 years ago

JAMES: In Newark, Governor Murphy Was Our Guy—Until He Wasn’t

In my last editorial I shared my prayers for a safe return to school. But we need far more than…

4 years ago

Newark District Magnet School Celebrates First-Gen Student Accepted to Seven Ivy League Colleges!

Congratulations to Janic Aguirre of Bard Early College High School, one of Newark Public School District's admissions-based magnet schools. Janic…

4 years ago

Jersey City Superintendent Reverses Himself: District Schools Will Reopen Next Week

Earlier this week NJ Education Report reported that, in contrast to Camden City Public Schools that just reopened for kindergarten-second…

4 years ago

LILLEY: Montclair Families Deserve Better Than a Mayor Who Cedes Control of Schools to a Political Machine

Fired Montclair Board of Education (BOE) member Sergio Gonzalez is angry.  As he says in his published letter, he is “angry…

4 years ago

Montclair Rumor Mill: Mayor Spiller and Teacher Union Prez Handpick School Board Members

The rumor mill is abuzz in Montclair. Here's the latest: When Mayor Sean Spiller, current Vice President of the New…

4 years ago

Camden Schools Reopen But Jersey City Schools Will Stay Closed Until September: Why?

Yesterday in Camden, district kindergarten-2nd grade students were welcomed back to in-person classes with "clean versions of hit pop songs,…

4 years ago

BREAKING: Montclair Mayor/Teacher Union Boss Sean Spiller Fires School Board Member for Daring ‘to Represent the Interests of Our Children Rather Than a Political Machine’

Here is a statement from Montclair Board of Education member Sergio Gonzalez upon Mayor/in-coming NJEA President Sean Spiller's termination of…

4 years ago

Five Students at Trenton’s Biggest Public Charter School Win National Award For Destigmatizing Mental Health

Yesterday, a group of five high school students at Foundation Academies – a high-performing public charter school network in Trenton…

4 years ago

New Grant Lets Camden School Board Livestream Its Meetings in Spanish

On March 23d at 5:30, Janet Pablo, a Camden mother of three, turned on a Facebook app on her phone…

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