This is a guest post by Tommy Luna who is currently entering his 10th year as an eighth grade math teacher at Newark’s Rise Academy.
Last week the anti-choice/accountability Princeton-based group called Save Our Schools-New Jersey summoned its Facebook members to fill out the survey that is part of the
I’ve been thinking about local control lately and the ways in which it contributes, both locally and nationally, to public education inequities. New Jersey, of
When my husband Dennis and I were getting ready to move from upstate New York to a new home within a reasonable commuting distance to
Last week in The 74 I analyzed the legacy of Chris Cerf’s tenure in New Jersey, both as Commissioner of Education and, more recently, as
I’ve tried to be open-minded about Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos. Many people I respect view her as a potentially powerful voice for
The Star-Ledger reports that a record 9,500 students in New Jersey declined vaccinations in the 2015-16 school year, according to the state health department. That’s
From his interview with the Star-Ledger: On misunderstandings regarding his involvement with the Facebook grant:. I was not part of the picture in summer of 2010,
Cerf told the school board and members of the public at the meeting that he was “unalterably, authentically, and completely committed” to local control. He