Murphy Administration

At This New Jersey High School, Every Single Graduate is Headed to College–With 35% First-Gens

This past May, Dr. Namik Sercan, Chief Education Officer of Central Jersey College Prep Charter School (CJCS), told NJ Education…

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Trenton Central High Students Suffer While Murphy Cancels Parent Voices

L.A. Parker of the Trentonian says nothing has changed at Trenton Central High School since 2005 when Mayor Doug Palmer…

2 years ago

As Murphy Plots a Presidential Run, Low-Income Families Pay the Price

At a Goldman Sachs conference in April of 2017, a month before Phil Murphy declared his candidacy for New Jersey…

2 years ago

Newark Schools Chief Roger León Gets Grilled On Student Learning Loss–and Comes Up Short

Yesterday Newark Superintendent Roger León was in the hot seat at the Newark Municipal Council Education Committee as he took…

2 years ago

WHITE: For Vanessa, And All Our Vanessas To Come

When bureaucratic shenanigans and red tape play Russian roulette with children’s lives, we all suffer. I was reminded of this…

2 years ago

State Charter Association Chief: Murphy Is Disrespecting Black and Latino Parents

This is a statement from Harry Lee, President & CEO, New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association, on Acting Commissioner of…

2 years ago

COMMENTARY: Murphy Treats Low-Income Families as Political Footballs As He Shuts Down Their Best Schools

Late yesterday Acting Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan sent a letter to Newark’s University Heights Charter School that decreed, based on…

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Murphy Administration’s Charter Closure–in June!– Will Cause Chaos For Black and Latino Families

(This is a press release from the New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association.) On June 1, the families of nearly…

2 years ago

VIDEO: As Parents Demand ‘Bold Change’ In Schools, JerseyCAN Steps Up

Over the last two years as schools have responded to COVID-19 disruptions, parents, grandparents, and guardians have had a never-seen-before…

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COMMENTARY: Yes, Murphy’s DOE Flunked Remote Learning But Let’s Not Get Carried Away

The new Rutgers paper, “Digital Divide, Critical and Crisis-Informatics Perspectives on K-12 Emergency Remote Teaching During the Pandemic,” is a…

2 years ago