This is an op-ed by Janellen Duffy, a senior adviser to JerseyCAN: The New Jersey Campaign for Achievement Now. She served as education policy adviser
Asbury Park school board members and administrators must be breathing a sigh of relief: Yesterday’s announcement by Gov. Murphy that the state will waive high
Press Release from the Governor’s Office– Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 214 to affect the following changes for the 2020-2021 school year: 1) waiver of
This release is courtesy of InsiderNJ. For context, among the 25,000 students in the district, the average math proficiency score is 17% (versus the New Jersey public
Jasmine Morrison is a parent activist in Newark with two sons in charter schools. For more coverage of her advocacy, see here, here, and here.
A new study from Oxford University in England, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and summarized here in Science, says that people with Down
Last week the New Jersey State Senator passed a bill, S-3214, mandating that Acting Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillen “require each school district to submit data on
As we head into the end of the year, now would seem to be a good time for reviews of 2020, and the NJEA Political
Yesterday Governor Phil Murphy’s office and the New Jersey Department of Education made a joint announcement with great fanfare: They have created “Addressing Student Learning
For the last three years students, parents, teachers, and schools have been effectively abandoned by the New Jersey Department of Education. The mismanagement by former