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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

BREAKING: Today Murphy Will Announce End of the School Mask Mandate

This afternoon at 1 pm Gov. Phil Murphy will announce that he is ending the in-school mask mandate, effective March…

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

Senate Education Committee Approves Gopal Bill to Reexamine School Funding Formula

To ensure that the school funding formula is meeting the needs of students in every school district, yesterday the Senate…

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

BREAKING: State School Board Overrules Murphy’s DOE and Says ‘No’ To Lowering Graduation Standards

Today at 12:40 the New Jersey State Board of Education rejected the Murphy Administration's Department of Education’s recommendation that students…

3 years ago

MURPHY: In NJ the Law Can Work Against Children With Disabilities; Here’s How Parents Can Gain Control

Tara Murphy is a SPAN Resource Parent, a Volunteer Advocacy Ambassador for Autism Speaks, member of the Council of Parent Attorneys and…

3 years ago

JerseyCAN–Once Again–Fills the Vacuum Left By Murphy Administration’s Education Department

Yesterday the Star-Ledger published a long interview with Patricia Morgan, executive director of the education policy watchdog group JerseyCAN and…

3 years ago

If You’re A Rich White Kid in NJ, Don’t Sweat Over Midterm Exams

There’s an emerging trend among New Jersey high schools: administrators are either canceling midterm exams or diluting their consequences in…

3 years ago