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EXPLAINER: What Are Standardized Tests and Why Do We Need Them?

Few education topics get parents, teachers, and school leaders more riled up than discussions about using results from student tests…

3 years ago

New Jersey Schools Have $3 Billion to Spend. How Will an Anemic Education Department Manage?

"Districts have serious needs, and this could help them address equity issues worsened by the virus. But as welcome as…

3 years ago

Murphy Says, ‘Okay, Maybe We Don’t Need Masks In Schools.’

New Jersey is enduring a heat wave. Teachers and students are sitting in classroom with temperatures of 90 degrees while…

3 years ago

NJ Superintendents Decry Murphy’s ‘Confusing, Contradictory’ Guidance on Masking in Schools

This is a letter from Monmouth County district superintendents to Governor Phil Murphy, asking that he reconsider his “confusing, and…

3 years ago

New Poll: 83 Percent of Low-Income New Jersey Parents Want High-Quality Tutoring Through Federal Stimulus Funds

As the New Jersey Department of Education recently announced grant amounts to school districts from the American Rescue Plan, Newark-based non-profit Project…

3 years ago

What’s $12 Billion Among Friends? New Report Slams Murphy Administration’s Schools Development Authority

New Jersey media is abuzz today with stories about the just-released report from the the State Commission of Investigation that…

3 years ago

Education Law Center: New Jersey Education Department Under-Staffed and Overwhelmed

(This is a republication of Education Law Center's new analysis, originally published on its website.) A new Education Law Center…

4 years ago

ANALYSIS: Trail of Corruption Left by Murphy’s Former Education Commissioner in Asbury Park

You may be wondering why I've been paying so much attention to Asbury Park. It's this: In 2017 when Gov.…

4 years ago

Murphy’s ‘New’ Education Commissioner’s Fast Track to Confirmation Hits a Pothole

Last October Gov. Phil Murphy nominated Angelica Allen-McMillan as Education Commissioner to replace his former Commissioner, Lamont Repollet. Allen-McMillan’s hearing…

4 years ago

Asbury Park Teachers Speak Out: ‘This Place Is a Shitshow’

Last Saturday the Asbury Park Education Association sent out a survey to all staff, asking them to rank the four…

4 years ago