In October 2020 Newark Superintendent Roger Leon announced with great fanfare the opening of district’s newest magnet high school, Newark School of Global Studies, where,
While Covid-19 was devastating schools, the Newark Board of Education decided to require teachers to use their sick days when they had to miss school
More than half of our students were rarely absent at 50.7%. That’s Rochanda Jackson, executive director of Newark schools’ Office of Policy, Planning, Evaluation and
Just when you think Newark Public Schools District can’t get any more dysfunctional, another perversion pops up. Example: today Chalkbeat reports that during October’s board
Newark Superintendent Roger Leon is on a spending spree, a newly-styled real estate magnate with plenty of money to burn given the district’s $1.2 billion
As many of you have read over the months, I like to try to create some good trouble in Newark. Sometimes I push the line,
In this new video, New Jersey Education Report interviews three Newark mothers who express their frustrations with the districts “universal enrollment” platform that is supposed
New State-of-the-Art Enrollment Portal will Better Serve Newark Families by Providing a Seamless and Transparent Process That Promotes Equity and Access The New Jersey Children’s
Today the Star-Ledger Editorial Board reports that over this past eight months Newark school board members and top staffers have taken taxpayer-funded trips to Las
Last week I interviewed Mark Bonamo of Tapinto Newark and Newark activist Oscar James II. Bonamo, along with journalist Tom Wiedmann, broke the story–which became