Senator Teresa Ruiz

SCOOP: Today NJ Education Department Will Urge State Board to Cancel Meaningful Assessments

Today the New Jersey State Board of Education’s Assessment Committee will meet with leaders of the NJ State Department of…

4 years ago

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

State Legislature Divided on Whether To Waive Spring Standardized Testing

There’s a rift in the State Legislature: Two Assemblywomen, Pamela Lampitt and Mila Jasey, will introduce a bill next week…

4 years ago

New DOE Commissioner: ‘It Is Impossible to Accelerate Learning if You Cannot Measure It’

Everyone agrees that over the last year many New Jersey students, especially those from low-income households, have lost academic ground.…

4 years ago

Newark Teachers Say Principal’s Ban on Failing Students Is ‘Hurting Kids’

It appears that the principal of Newark’s Central High School, Dr. Sharnee Brown, is taking lessons from former New Jersey…

4 years ago

NJ Senate Education Chair: We Must Assess Student Learning Loss This Year

Senate Education Chair M. Teresa Ruiz issued the following statement welcoming the Biden Administration’s move to begin collecting data on…

4 years ago

Nine New Senate Bills Aim to Address NJ’s Teacher Diversity Gap

Senator Teresa Ruiz, chair of the Senate Education Committee, just introduced a series of bills to address the lack of…

4 years ago

Here’s Why You Should Care About the DOE’s Poor Oversight of Asbury Park (Plus, Three Bonus Rumors)

Asbury Park school board members and administrators must be breathing a sigh of relief: Yesterday’s announcement by Gov. Murphy that…

4 years ago

COMMENTARY: I’m No DeVos Fan, but the New York Times’s Broadside Shows Its Bias

The New York Times Editorial Board, in a piece published Sunday called “The Wreckage Betsy DeVos Leaves Behind,” excoriates out-going…

4 years ago

Breaking News: New Jersey Senate Passes Learning Loss Bill by 38-1

This is a press release from the New Jersey Democrats. For background, see here, here, here and here. RUIZ, TURNER PUSH FOR DOE…

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