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South Orange-Maplewood Superintendent: Board May Bring Back Courtesy Busing For Integration Program

Today Carly Sitrin of Politico has an article about the South Orange-Maplewood district's transportation mess, with angry parents crowding school…

2 years ago

South Orange-Maplewood Parents Outraged At School Board’s Disregard for Child Safety

South Orange-Maplewood Public Schools District (SOMA) is known for its fine schools with students performing well above state averages. Like…

2 years ago

COMMENTARY: Is This School Really a Remedy For NJ’s Intensely-Segregated School System?

Yesterday the New Jersey Monitor had a fine piece on the Garden State's long struggle to integrate schools, currently the…

3 years ago

PARK & LEE: Charter Schools Can Be a Remedy for NJ’s Segregated School System–If We Get This Right

Sonia C. Park is the executive director of the Diverse Charter Schools Coalition. Harry Lee is the president and CEO of…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: The Dog Ate Our Homework, Says Murphy’s Ed Department, and Here’s What’s Missing

Chalkbeat's Patrick Wall, an excellent reporter who covers Newark, has a piece today that delves into a set of segregation…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Hey, Pro-Murphy Anti-Charter Folk, Stop Using These Noble Kids To Push Your Corrupt Crusade

Monday's Star-Ledger featured an op-ed by two wonderful equity warriors, Kelly Ribeiro and Jordan Victor Wallace, high school students who…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Nikole Hannah-Jones Needs a History Lesson on School Choice

https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1446212919948156935 That’s Nikole Hannah-Jones, of the New York Times and 1619 Project, tweeting last week about “school choice advocates” who,…

3 years ago

Education Highlights From Last Night’s Murphy-Ciattarelli Debate

Tuesday evening incumbent Democrat Phil Murphy and challenger Jack Ciattarelii duked it out at Rowan University at Glassboro for their…

3 years ago

Jersey Jazzman’s District Makes ‘Disgusting’ Headlines!

Mark Weber (aka Jersey Jazzman) loves to write about low-income students of color in New Jersey and how their academic…

3 years ago

What’s Another $6 Billion a Year in State School Spending for New Jersey Taxpayers?

Bruce Baker and Mark Weber have another paper out at New Jersey Policy Perspective where they report (accurately) that systemic,…

3 years ago