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Fair Funding for Charter Schools Is Wedge Issue in Debate Over Reforming Schools Development Authority

Two years ago the New Jersey Schools Development Authority, responsible for building and renovating facilities in low-income districts, was mired…

2 years ago

Big News From Asbury Park That No One Covered!

A week and a half ago on October 28th, the Asbury Park School Board ended their superintendent "search" and appointed…

3 years ago

Asbury Update: A ‘Whistleblower’ Gets Suspended and the School Board Plays Charades

Reginald Mirthil, the principal of Thurgood Marshall Upper Elementary School, has been suspended. On Tuesday he sent out a tweet…

3 years ago

Bill That Would Protect Students With Disabilities Stalled on Murphy’s Desk

A month ago the New Jersey State Legislature unanimously passed a bill that would offer 700 students with disabilities an…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Some Advice for NJ's New Ed Commissioner: If We Don't Measure, We Can't Fix It

For the last three years students, parents, teachers, and schools have been effectively abandoned by the New Jersey Department of…

4 years ago

Why Hasn’t Murphy Replaced the DOE Commissioner?

I’m surely not the first to wonder why Governor Phil Murphy has yet to nominate a Commissioner for the Department…

4 years ago

Is Phil Murphy Spending Too Much Time in the Italian Sun? How Else To Explain His Veto?

Maybe Phil Murphy needs to vacation in cooler climes in order to make fair decisions on school funding for New…

5 years ago

Murphy Issues Statement Re: Post-Janus Union Protection Bill

Yesterday I wrote about New Jersey Education Association's proactive legislative victory before the Supreme Court rules on Janus v. AFSCME, when…

6 years ago

What’s A Little Extortion Among Friends? Lakewood School Board Rehires Inzelbuch

There’s so much news out of Lakewood that it’s hard to keep up. The latest is that the School Board…

7 years ago

Trenton’s Special Education Secret (and one piece of its budget crisis): 900 Children Bussed Away Each Day to Other Schools

Everyone knows it but just about everyone is afraid to say it: New Jersey’s school funding formula is irreparably broken.…

9 years ago