Lamont Repollet

What’s Everyone Saying About Murphy’s Pick For Education Commissioner?

Many media outlets have reports today on Gov. Phil Murphy’s nomination of Angelica Allen-McMillan for Education Commissioner, five months after…

4 years ago

Murphy Selects a New Education Department Commissioner.

Gov. Phil Murphy has just nominated a new Education Commissioner, Angelica Allen-McMillan. Here's Murphy's statement: “From day one, I pledged…

4 years ago

Split Screen of SDA/DOE: Nepotism In the Soprano State.

There’s been lots of chatter about news that the Governor’s Office -- not Murphy necessarily but, as NJ Spotlight puts…

4 years ago

New Jersey Schools Failed the Remote Learning Test in March. Here Are 3 Ways to Get September Right.

For the last two years I’ve been reporting on the disarray at the New Jersey Department of Education. Suddenly I’m…

4 years ago

Senator Ruiz Reams Out NJ DOE for Lying and Lack of Leadership

A few notes from last Thursday's State Senate Budget Committee hearing, with Interim Department of Education Commissioner Kevin Dehmer in…

4 years ago

The Road to Reopening Is Filled With Potholes, Says NJ School Boards Association

One week ago the New Jersey School Boards Association published a report called “Choosing The Best ‘Road Back’ for Our…

4 years ago

Why Hasn’t Murphy Replaced the DOE Commissioner?

I’m surely not the first to wonder why Governor Phil Murphy has yet to nominate a Commissioner for the Department…

4 years ago

Murphy Flip-Flops on School Reopenings. Here’s the Backstory.

It’s been two years since I began covering the deterioration of the New Jersey Department of Education under the commissioner appointed…

4 years ago

There’s A Catch For Districts Planning on Going All-Remote

According to a source who spoke to Advance Media, New Jersey’s nearly 600 school districts will not be able to…

4 years ago

School Districts Defy Murphy With Impunity While Repollet Takes Kean University All-Remote

Yesterday I wrote of an accelerating pattern of school districts defying direct mandates from Phil Murphy and the state Department…

4 years ago