Graig Weiss is the Chief Executive Officer of Foundation Academies, a high-performing charter school network in Trenton. For the last…
Seven months ago, before the Delta variant of COVID-19 reversed hard-won decreases in disease transmission, Gov. Phil Murphy issued a…
As children return to school after an unprecedented year of learning disruption, we face huge challenges in getting students back…
Project Ready, the Newark-based social justice and advocacy group, just released a new poll as Newark students return to in-person…
Problem: In Newark, pandemic-induced school closures have significantly disrupted student academic progress, with only 9% of Newark students meeting state…
When national politicians and lobbyists argue we should spend more money on K-12 education, they’re almost always talking about increasing…
Yesterday the New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) held its third annual Statewide Equity Conference, with an emphasis on providing…
Last week news broke that Newark Superintendent Roger León had been less than honest about learning loss among the 42,000…
In an excellent piece of investigative journalism by Patrick Wall of Chalkbeat, “The pandemic set back student learning. Newark kept the…
Back in March the non-profit JerseyCAN commissioned a report to quantify learning loss among New Jersey students during the pandemic.…