According to an inside source, some New Jersey school districts distributed “cheat sheets” last month for students taking the state’s standardized tests called Start Strong.
Newark Public Schools District just released the most recent scores on the in-district assessments that measure student learning. According to Patrick Wall at Chalkbeat, “Newark
With apologies to The Clash, yesterday was an embarassing one for Gov. Phil Murphy’s Department of Education. At the public meeting of the State Board
Today at 12:40 the New Jersey State Board of Education rejected the Murphy Administration’s Department of Education’s recommendation that students will be deemed “high school
There’s an emerging trend among New Jersey high schools: administrators are either canceling midterm exams or diluting their consequences in order to assuage student stress.
“I am heartbroken, disappointed and outraged,” State Senator Teresa Ruiz, the outgoing chair of the Senate Education Committee who will become the new Senate Majority
This is a letter addressed to President Biden’s nominee for U.S. education secretary, Dr. Miguel Cardona, and signed by major civil rights, social justice, disability
Last week Newark Superintendent Roger León, cowed by the Newark Teachers Union, announced that Newark Public School would remain closed at least through April, an
This is the full copy of a letter sent yesterday to the Biden/Harris transition team from national advocates for students with disabilities. Here, they detail
Following the Department of Education’s announcement on statewide assessments and the issuing of the New Jersey Children’s Foundation report on remote education, Senate Education Chair