Magnet Schools

COMMENTARY: These Three NJ Schools Defy Murphy Administration’s Push for Low Standards

Hindsight is golden but here’s what we know: School closures and remote instruction during the 2020-2021 school year were academic…

2 years ago

COMMENTARY: Is This School Really a Remedy For NJ’s Intensely-Segregated School System?

Yesterday the New Jersey Monitor had a fine piece on the Garden State's long struggle to integrate schools, currently the…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Hey, Pro-Murphy Anti-Charter Folk, Stop Using These Noble Kids To Push Your Corrupt Crusade

Monday's Star-Ledger featured an op-ed by two wonderful equity warriors, Kelly Ribeiro and Jordan Victor Wallace, high school students who…

3 years ago

Newark Magnet School Partners with Howard University

In a partnership that marks the first of its kind, Newark Public Schools by way of University High School, will…

3 years ago

Principal Churn in Newark

Three Newark district high schools ---Science Park (an exclusive magnet), Central High School, and Newark Vocatinal High School--- are losing…

3 years ago

These Seven NJ K-12 School Leaders Make More Than $250,000 a Year

Today John Bury, who pens the blog BuryPensions, lists the 69 public employees in New Jersey who make over $250,000…

4 years ago

Newark Public Schools, Traditional and Charter, Celebrate Their Best-In-The-State Rankings

Here are two press releases, one from Newark Public Schools celebrating that U.S. News & World Report ranked two of…

4 years ago

ANALYSIS: Here’s What’s Wrong With U.S. News and World Report’s Top New Jersey High Schools List

U.S. News and World Report just published its rankings of the top high schools in each state Below is a…

4 years ago

Dramatic Drop in Newark Students Applying to College–Except For Two Types of Public Schools

The pandemic takes its educational toll in countless ways and one of them is a dramatic drop in Newark high…

4 years ago

Newark District Magnet School Celebrates First-Gen Student Accepted to Seven Ivy League Colleges!

Congratulations to Janic Aguirre of Bard Early College High School, one of Newark Public School District's admissions-based magnet schools. Janic…

4 years ago