LaKeisha Scott is a Camden resident and mother of “miracle baby” Ja’leel, a student with multiple disabilities. The Camden Planning Board recently approved plans for
A new national poll out from Morning Consult looks at Black, Hispanic, and White parents’ views on returning to school, getting vaccinated, wanting tutoring services,
On Monday Parents Invincible, a new non-profit headed by longtime Camden activist Shirley Irizarry, sent a questionnaire to all Camden schools seeking information on how
When high-school computer science teacher Harold Brown walked through the doors of KIPP Newark Collegiate Academy (NCA), his colleagues surprised him with an Amazon box
Dashawn Sheffield, a rising 11th-grader at Uncommon Schools’ North Star Academy Washington Park High School in Newark, explains why he decided to launch a new
Yesterday the Camden Education Fund announced the winners of the RISE (Resilient, Inspirational, Solutions-Oriented Educators) awards to honor city teachers for their hard work and
Today, the NJ State Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding the Commissioner of Education’s 2016 decisions to expand seven high-performing charter schools in Newark. This
Laura McKenna is an education writer based in New Jersey. You can find her here (www.lauramckenna.com). This article was originally published at Laura McKenna’s Substack newsletter.
In a unanimous ruling issued this afternoon, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of the State Department of Education’s 2016 decision to allow
Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit focused on dramatically changing education and life outcomes for underserved children, has been assisting public districts across the country