On October 12th, Asbury Park School District students entered buildings to eat breakfast before taking the state Start Strong diagnostic assessments. This is what they
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New Jersey badly lacks teachers of color and the cost is borne by Black and Brown children. If a Black child has even one Black
It’s going to completely skew results and play into the narrative of learning loss, when it’s really just learning that hasn’t happened yet. That’s Chrissi
Last Tuesday a female student standing outside School 15 in Paterson Public Schools District grabbed another girl by the hair and started banging her head
On Tuesday, October 19th, JerseyCAN, a nonprofit advocating for high-quality schools for all New Jersey students, launched a new webinar to provide New Jersey’s parents,
This week I heard from a special education teacher who used to teach at Asbury Park. This was serendipitous because I had just received internal
Here’s Matt Friedman this morning in his Politico NJ email, responding to the news that Gov. Phil Murphy will require all state contractors to get
A’Dorian Murray-Thomas is a Newark School Board member with a remarkable history. At the ripe old age of 23, this life-long Newarker has founded and
Last night, four hours into the South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education public meeting, President Thair Joshua introduced an “urgent” resolution that had not been on