Last night the Jersey City Board of Education voted 5-4 to approve a new 2022-2023 budget. Last week members had expressed dismay at the district’s
The Jersey City Board of Education held a marathon meeting yesterday trying to balance the burden on taxpayers—the proposed 2022-2023 budget will add $2,400 a
Jersey City and Lakewood’s public school districts couldn’t be more dissimilar. The former, New Jersey’s second largest district, educates 33,000 students—a mix of Black, white,
Back in 2010 during the Christie Administration, the New Jersey State Legislature passed a bill that capped sick day retirement-payouts to $15,000 for public employees
Yesterday Gov. Phil Murphy announced that his mask mandate for all schools and daycare centers (for children over 2) would be lifted on March 7th,
Felicia Henderson is a first-grade teacher at Learning Community Charter School in Jersey City. She serves as the head of the Social Justice Coordinate and
Back in March 2020 when New Jersey was being crushed by COVID cases, the State Legislature passed a bill that, in the event that districts
This is a letter (lightly edited) to Gov. Phil Murphy, written by Shanna Givens of Jersey City, who has an autoimmune disease. She pleads with
In the wake of a racial tirade by a Jersey City teacher, parents and students will hold a rally on Monday in front of the
“I hear people whining and crying about Black Lives Matter, but George Floyd was a f—ing criminal and he got arrested and he got killed