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Half-Truths: A Look Inside New Jersey’s Schools During a Pandemic

Sarah Mulhern Gross is a National Board-certified English teacher at High Technology High School, a magnet school in Lincroft, New…

4 years ago

Breaking: NJ Legislature Prepares to Act on Bill to Help Kids, Despite Inaction From DOE and Opposition From Lobbyists

Last week the New Jersey State Senator passed a bill, S-3214,  mandating  that Acting Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillen “require each school…

4 years ago

NJ Education Department Leak Shows Lack of Support for Staff Under New Commissioner

This following note was sent to NJ Left Behind by a New Jersey Department of Education staff member who wishes…

4 years ago

2020 in Review: NJEA Scratched Murphy's Back and Murphy Scratched NJEA's

As we head into the end of the year, now would seem to be a good time for reviews of…

4 years ago

Inequity, Anyone? NJEA Execs Work Fewer Years for (Much!)Bigger Pensions While Teachers Risk Insolvency

Mike Lilley of Sunlight Policy Center has a new report out called “Ugly Truths and Hard Facts About New Jersey's…

4 years ago

Two Problems With Learning Loss Grants Trumpeted by Murphy and NJ Education Department

Yesterday Governor Phil Murphy's office and the New Jersey Department of Education made a joint announcement with great fanfare: They…

4 years ago

Senate Education Committee Demands a "Reckoning With Truth," Despite Pleas From NJEA

After the U.S. education system fractured into Zoom screens last spring, experts feared millions of children would fall behind. Hard…

4 years ago

NJEducationAid: NJ Policy Perspective's Biased Research Is Misleading You About NJ Teacher Pensions.

As part of its advocacy for the New Jersey Education Association, the New Jersey Policy Perspective has put its imprimatur…

4 years ago

Why Should the State Ed. Dept. Have to Collect Data on Student Learning Loss? Here’s Why.

This is testimony from JerseyCAN Executive Director Patricia Morgan, given yesterday at the Senate Education Committee's hearing on Bill S3214.…

4 years ago

How Often Does a Senate Committee Meeting Remind You of a Trump-Biden Debate?

Today the New Jersey Senate Education Committee is meeting for a full day of hearings on thirteen bills. (See list…

4 years ago