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New Survey Results from Asbury Park: ‘The State Needs To Come In and Shut This Place Down’

The Asbury Park Education Association sent out a mid-year climate survey to its 375 members asking their opinions of the…

3 years ago

A Tweet-Thread To Gov. Murphy Re: His Decision To Prioritize Politics Over Newark Students and Families

Monday: @PhilMurphyNJ: “If it’s a high-quality top performing school, regardless of what school it is…we’ve never, ever, ever been, ‘Hell…

3 years ago

LEE: NJ Education Commissioner’s Decisions are ‘Crushing Blow to Low-Income Students of Color’

The following is a statement from Harry Lee, President of the New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association: Yesterday, Acting Commissioner…

3 years ago

NJ State Charter Association Agrees with Gov. Murphy: We Must Support All Great Schools Including High-Performing Charter Schools

Yesterday, at Governor Murphy’s press conference, in response to a reporter question, the Governor noted that he supports “high-quality top…

3 years ago

‘President’ Phil Murphy?

It’s no secret that Gov. Phil Murphy has national ambitions. After his inaugural speech last month, Fred Snowflack editorialized that…

3 years ago

No More Masks in Schools, Unless You Live in Newark or Jersey City

Yesterday Gov. Phil Murphy announced that his mask mandate for all schools and daycare centers (for children over 2) would…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: It’s Time for Murphy to Take Off His MAGA Hat

Gov. Phil Murphy says he supports “giving our children the education they need to succeed in a 21st century economy.”…

3 years ago

Star-Ledger Editorial Board Pounds Incompetence of Murphy’s Education Department

It's not often that an entire Editorial Board of New Jersey's paper of record (if the Garden State has such…

3 years ago

Update: Murphy’s Education Department Fought the Board and the Board Won

With apologies to The Clash, yesterday was an embarassing one for Gov. Phil Murphy's Department of Education. At the public…

3 years ago

Once Again, These ‘Fiscal Equity’ Lobbyists Futz With Facts To Satisfy a Flawed Premise

Here we go again. Bruce Baker and Mark Weber (aka Jersey Jazzman) have another report up at New Jersey Policy…

3 years ago