Last week New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) released a “report” that tries to prove the state takeover of Camden Public Schools in 2013 didn’t result
This is a press release from New Jersey State Senators Steve Sweeney, Vin Gopal, and Declan O’Scanlon, who just introduced bipartisan legislation intended to incentivize
This post, by Tim Evans, analyzes the relationship between school district fragmentation and the role it may play in fostering and maintaining a racially and
This is the first in a series of three pieces on my changing views of publicly-funded vouchers to parochial and private schools. The second is
For the last two years I’ve been reporting on the disarray at the New Jersey Department of Education. Suddenly I’m not the only one. In
A few notes from last Thursday’s State Senate Budget Committee hearing, with Interim Department of Education Commissioner Kevin Dehmer in the hot seat, poor soul.
It’s not a secret how all this should work. When anticipating prolonged school closures, states need to set clear expectations for the quality of learning
We’re about 5 weeks into our coronavirus lock-down in New Jersey, about a month since much of America has embarked on a national experiment of
Last week I wrote about a lawsuit currently before Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson which charges that New Jersey’s public schools are unconstitutionally segregated due
Last year I interviewed Tafshier Cosby-Thomas about her educational experiences in Newark, both as a student and a parent. At the time of that interview,