NJ Department of Education (DOE)

Why Should the State Ed. Dept. Have to Collect Data on Student Learning Loss? Here’s Why.

This is testimony from JerseyCAN Executive Director Patricia Morgan, given yesterday at the Senate Education Committee's hearing on Bill S3214.…

4 years ago

COMMENTARY: Some Advice for NJ's New Ed Commissioner: If We Don't Measure, We Can't Fix It

For the last three years students, parents, teachers, and schools have been effectively abandoned by the New Jersey Department of…

4 years ago

How Disproportionate Is New Jersey’s Rate of School Suspensions?

According to Carly Sitrin of Politico (the full article is behind a paywall), Black students in New Jersey were suspended…

4 years ago

New Appointments at the NJ Department of Education

Over the last two weeks the New Jersey State Board of Education has approved two people to serve under new…

4 years ago

We Don’t Just Need COVID Testing, Our Students Need Academic Testing Too

When I was seven months pregnant with my first baby I developed a condition called preeclampsia. It can be quite…

4 years ago

NJ Ed Department Lacks “Sense of Urgency” So Legislators Get Creative.

I’ve been clear — I’m hugely disappointed with the outcomes of the Department of Education. I’m sure they are trying…

4 years ago

COMMENTARY: Hear Me Out on My Voucher Proposal

This is the third in a series on my changing views of publicly-funded vouchers to parochial and private schools. The…

4 years ago

SCOOP: NJ Deputy Attorney General Says That Newark Charter School Expansion Embodies ‘Precisely What the Charter School Program Was Designed to Achieve’

Below is the preliminary statement from New Jersey State Deputy Attorney General Christopher Weber in a new brief in the…

4 years ago

Murphy Gets High Grades for Managing COVID Contagion So Why Is He Flunking COVID Schooling?

We as a state, for whatever reason, erred on the side of less guidance for schools when more guidance was…

4 years ago

New Report From School Boards Association: It’s Time for the State Education Department to Do Its Job.

Today the New Jersey School Boards Association released the third in a series of reports on how the coronavirus is…

4 years ago