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What’s Good Enough for Asbury Park Students Isn’t Good Enough for the Top Brass: Asbestos, Anyone?

What is the Asbury Park School Board thinking? It’s awfully hard to tell and its nine members are not a…

3 years ago

Camden Prep Parent of Special Needs Student Thankful for Planning Board Approval of High School

LaKeisha Scott is a Camden resident and mother of  "miracle baby" Ja'leel, a student with multiple disabilities. The Camden Planning…

3 years ago

Newark Leaders Are AWOL As Parents Demand Information on Learning Loss

Last week news broke that Newark Superintendent Roger León had been less than honest about learning loss among the 42,000…

3 years ago

What’s Behind Murphy’s No-Masks-in-School Stance?

On May 24th Gov. Phil Murphy announced on Morning Joe that all students would be wearing masks in school in…

3 years ago

New Report: New Jersey in Last Place for Nonwhite Student Access to in-School Learning

A new paper out from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms that students in school districts that…

3 years ago

Newark Superintendent Tries Smoke and Mirrors to Hide Extent of Student Learning Loss

Back in March the non-profit JerseyCAN commissioned a report to quantify learning loss among New Jersey students during the pandemic.…

3 years ago

New Poll: Black Parents ‘Much More Likely’ to Support Charter Schools and Voucher Programs

A new national poll out from Morning Consult looks at Black, Hispanic, and White parents' views on returning to school,…

3 years ago

Camden’s Newest Non-Profit Quizzes Schools on Learning Loss Plans

On Monday Parents Invincible, a new non-profit headed by longtime Camden activist Shirley Irizarry, sent a questionnaire to all Camden…

3 years ago

KIPP Educator Wins Amazon Teacher of the Year

When high-school computer science teacher Harold Brown walked through the doors of KIPP Newark Collegiate Academy (NCA), his colleagues surprised…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Are Lakewood School District Students Still Getting ‘Cheated’?

Last week at its public meeting the Lakewood Board of Education approved a long list of out-of-district placements for students…

3 years ago