New Jersey State Legislature

RICCARDS: Biden Administration Boldly Declares Importance of Measuring Academic Impact of Pandemic Year

Rest easy, Garden State. The Biden Administration and its U.S. Department of Education has now made the tough decision for…

4 years ago

NJ School Boards Association Explains How To Reopen School While Integrating the “New Normal”

Last week at a virtual meeting with the State Legislature’s Joint Committee on the Public Schools, New Jersey School Boards…

4 years ago

Breaking: NJ Legislature Prepares to Act on Bill to Help Kids, Despite Inaction From DOE and Opposition From Lobbyists

Last week the New Jersey State Senator passed a bill, S-3214,  mandating  that Acting Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillen “require each school…

4 years ago

School Reopening Plans Backlogged at DOE While School Leaders Lament Lack of Leadership

I’ve had a lot of superintendents, a lot of principals from my area reach out lamenting kind of the lack…

4 years ago

Murphy Is Losing Key Allies As He Fumbles School Reopening Plans.

It’s a domino effect: Despite Gov. Murphy’s resistance to lengthy periods of online instruction, district after district -- 150 at…

4 years ago

New Jersey Superintendents Enraged By Murphy’s “Abdication of Responsibility”

In my experience, school superintendents are gracious and diplomatic when faced with hardships, whether dealt unexpected cuts in state aid,…

4 years ago

New Jersey Superintendents Decry the State’s “Lazy,” “Incomplete,” and “Contradictory” Guidance To Reopening Schools

The pattern was already there: New Jersey's Department of Education, when faced complex issues, punts instead. We've seen this with…

4 years ago

NJ Senate Education Committee Rips DOE’s Digital Divide Failures

“I’m so angry right now that I’m trying to contain myself," Ruiz, D-Essex, told state Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet during…

4 years ago

Tonight the Lakewood School Board Will Approve A Budget It Can’t Pay For.

Later today at its public meeting the Lakewood Board of Education will approve a budget of $204 million that assumes…

5 years ago

Dear Gov. Murphy/Comm. Repollet/NJEA: Look at This School and Tell Us Again Why You Want to Water Down High School Testing.

Last week I wrote about the dilemma facing the New Jersey State Board of Education: To accept a low-ball standardized…

5 years ago