Today at The74, Richard Whitmire addresses the $100 million Newark Facebook grant and whether the money should have all been…
Props to Senator Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex), who withstood pressure from NJEA and Save Our Schools-NJ and stood strong against an…
"The charter school law needs to be rewritten in a thoughtful, comprehensive way. It's been more than 20 years since…
Yesterday the Newark City Council, duly-elected representatives of Newark residents, passed a resolution that opposes Assembly bill 4351, sponsored by…
Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex), chair of the Assembly Education Committee, has an editorial in today’s Star Ledger promoting his PARCC…
Newark mother Melissa Grant (she’s also CEO of a non-profit that provides transitional housing for homeless women) expresses her dismay…
Ron Rice Jr., a former Newark Public Schools student, Newark city councilman, and current senior director of government relations at…
Score another one for Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan: not only does he want to undermine the state’s ability to gauge academic…
It starts here:Upholding ethical principles in Trenton’s State House is no game for wimps. Legislators in the Assembly and the…