From Abbott to Vergara: Irony in Camden

This week I had a column in NJ Spotlight about  the upcoming anniversary of the Abbott v. Burke cases, specifically Abbott II, in which the

Newark’s Misdirected Civil Rights Complaint

Both NJ Spotlight and the Star-Ledger have stories today on the federal investigation of a civil rights complaint filed by Newark advocates regarding the closure

Trenton’s Next Mayor and the City’s Schools

I covered Saturday’s mayoral forum for WHYY Newsworks: At the mayoral forum Saturday morning “Setting Trenton’s Education Agenda,” sponsored by the Citizens Campaign at the

Jim Crow in South Orange-Maplewood?

Walter Fields, former political director of the NJ NAACP and leader of a new black parents’ group in South Orange-Maplewood Public Schools, describes “the modern-day