Frustration is mounting in Asbury Park among parents, staff members, and residents . Here’s a round-up of what people are telling me. Right now it’s
Advocates for Camden City students are cheering the results of a new report, commissioned by Camden Education Fund and conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s
Newark Public Schools district leaders aren’t panicking. Yet a 34% drop in enrollment is cause for concern, at least as measured by the participation in
What is the Asbury Park School Board thinking? It’s awfully hard to tell and its nine members are not a single organism. Yet the majority
LaKeisha Scott is a Camden resident and mother of “miracle baby” Ja’leel, a student with multiple disabilities. The Camden Planning Board recently approved plans for
Last week news broke that Newark Superintendent Roger León had been less than honest about learning loss among the 42,000 students who attend district schools.
In an excellent piece of investigative journalism by Patrick Wall of Chalkbeat, “The pandemic set back student learning. Newark kept the data under wraps,” published in NJ
Back in March the non-profit JerseyCAN commissioned a report to quantify learning loss among New Jersey students during the pandemic. On average, New Jersey students
On Monday Parents Invincible, a new non-profit headed by longtime Camden activist Shirley Irizarry, sent a questionnaire to all Camden schools seeking information on how
When high-school computer science teacher Harold Brown walked through the doors of KIPP Newark Collegiate Academy (NCA), his colleagues surprised him with an Amazon box