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Winners and Losers As Murphy Administration Announces District State Aid Allocations

During Gov. Murphy's budget speech on Tuesday, one of the items that perked ears up was his announcement that state…

3 years ago

NJEA Leaders Praise Murphy For ‘Fully Funding’ Our ‘Best In the Nation’ Schools

NJEA’s officers, President Sean M. Spiller, Vice President Steve Beatty and Secretary-Treasurer Petal Robertson, released this statement Tuesday afternoon Gov.…

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

HAPPENING RIGHT NOW: Hundreds of Parents and Students to Rally at State Capital to Demand Support of Their Public Charters

Following February’s expansion denials of top-performing public charter schools, hundreds of parents and students, primarily families of color, from New…

3 years ago

After School Board Member’s Racist Posts, District Tries to Insert Some Wiggle Room

What happens when a New Jersey school board member makes blatantly racist comments on social media? If you go by…

3 years ago

New Rutgers-Eagleton Poll: Most New Jerseyans Are Done With Mask Mandates in Schools

According to the new Rutgers-Eagleton poll, two-thirds of New Jerseyans agree with lifting school mask mandate, most comfortable returning to…

3 years ago

How Do New Jersey Schools Rate Through an ‘Equity Lens’? Not As Well As You’d Think.

Education Trust, a nonprofit that works to close opportunity gaps that disproportionately affect students of color and students from low-income…

3 years ago

NJ School Board Member ‘Sorry Not Sorry’ About Racist Commentary

Central Regional School District is a small two-school district in Ocean County serving 2,800 students grades 7-12. Recently this district,…

3 years ago

BREAKING: Asbury Park Teachers & Residents Demand State Declare Superintendent’s Contract ‘Null and Void’

Twelve days ago, on February 22nd, the Asbury Park Education Association, which represents 375 district teachers and staff, plus three…

3 years ago

Newark Students Paint Their Identities!

Who are you? What defines you? How do you see yourself? How do you want others to see you? These…

3 years ago