This week I interviewed Kyle Rosenkrans, the executive director of a newly-launched nonprofit called New Jersey Children’s Foundation (NJCF). Rosenkrans, a Jersey native, plans
Yesterday at the New Jersey Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing, N.J. Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet responded to questions about Gov. Murphy’s school budget. But
Yesterday news came that Lizette Delgado-Polanco resigned from her government job. There’s news today too: So did her husband. Two sources told me that Enohel
As we continue this ongoing series that deals, in part, with how Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet’s tenure at Asbury Park School District (APSD), as well
The memo below is from the New Jersey Department of Education’s Assistant Commissioner of Student Services, Carolyn Marano. It was written while she was Director of
Last Thursday I published a post about the North Jersey Media Group’s hit job on New Jersey’s public charter schools. This five-part series was rife
When Governor Phil Murphy appointed then-Asbury Park Superintendent Lamont Repollet as New Jersey Commissioner of Education in 2018, he cited the “dramatic” increase in the
“When someone shows you who they are,” said Maya Angelou, “believe them the first time.” This would have been good advice for Education Commissioner Lamont
I was a school board member for twelve years, including nine years as president. I thought I’d seen it all, including fraught negotiations with unions.
I’ll bet you know that the pace of charter school growth has slowed throughout the country. But you may not know that while approvals of