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The COVID Pandemic Has Not Changed Some Things: More Shoddy Research From Jersey Jazzman and NJ Policy Perspective

Mark Weber, Ph.D. (a.k.a., Jersey Jazzman), has published an op-ed in NJSpotlight (based on a report he did for New Jersey Policy…

4 years ago

Murphy Selects a New Education Department Commissioner.

Gov. Phil Murphy has just nominated a new Education Commissioner, Angelica Allen-McMillan. Here's Murphy's statement: “From day one, I pledged…

4 years ago

Karega Rausch Says Charter Schools Get Better Outcomes for Kids When They Listen to Communities

Last week I interviewed Karega Rausch, the new Executive Director of the non-partisan National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA).…

4 years ago

It’s ‘Unconscionable’ That Special Education Is an Afterthought in School District Plans

The Center for Reinventing Public Education's Executive Director Robin Lake and Research Analyst Lanya McKittrick wrote this analysis, which first…

4 years ago

My Grandma Would Tell Me, ‘Lakewood Is Bad for the Jews.’

My grandmother of blessed memory, Lena Weinman, divided the universe into two parts, what was “good for the Jews” and…

4 years ago

NCSECS: Harsh Disciplinary Practices For Students With Disabilities Rises Once Again

Today, the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools released the following statement reacting to new data from the Civil…

4 years ago

Oscar James: We Can’t Depend on Murphy To Fix Our Schools So We Have To Depend on Ourselves

My daughter attends West Side High School in Newark. A long time ago, New Jersey promised us a new $160…

4 years ago

Lilley: Murphy’s Pension Payment Is “Throwing Good Money After Bad.”

This isn’t new news but it’s also not good news.  Pew Charitable Trusts updated its pension study to include 2018 data,…

4 years ago

What’s $12 Billion Among Friends? Or, How the SDA Wasted Your Tax Money.

Last week I wrote about how the practice of nepotism at the Schools Development Authority under the “leadership” of former…

4 years ago

Split Screen of SDA/DOE: Nepotism In the Soprano State.

There’s been lots of chatter about news that the Governor’s Office -- not Murphy necessarily but, as NJ Spotlight puts…

4 years ago