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Wednesday’s Forum Will Highlight Murphy Administration’s Dishonesty About Student Learning Loss

Last month we reported New Jersey was one of nine states in the country that hadn’t released student test results…

2 years ago

Latest From Asbury Park: Students Pulled From Class To Celebrate Principal’s Pregnancy and Teachers Deride Ignorant Evaluations

At Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, one of two preK-3 schools in Asbury Park Schools District, academics appear to take second…

2 years ago

Murphy’s Education Department Trumpets Equity as State Board Members View the 64th Floor

The New Jersey State Board of Education held its monthly public meeting this morning, large stretches of it consumed by…

2 years ago

Assemblyman Umba Demands Murphy’s Ed Department Release Spring Test Scores

Today, Assemblyman Brandon Umba (R-Medford), a member of the Assembly Education Committee, released the following statement calling for the release…

2 years ago

O’Scanlon Calls for Investigation of NJ Education Department’s Mismanagement of Start Strong Tests

Senator Declan O’Scanlon called for an investigation into the New Jersey Department of Education’s handling of the “Start Strong” testing…

2 years ago

LILLEY: NJSpotlight Continues to Align Its Education Reporting with NJEA, Its Major Financial Sponsor

The decline of NJSpotlight News as an unbiased news organization continues.  Here are two recent examples. First, NJ Spotlight covered Monday’s Assembly Education Committee…

2 years ago

What REALLY Happened At Monday’s Statehouse Hearing on Learning Loss and Testing? Not What You Think.

I've always been a fan of NJ Spotlight, the online news platform founded by John Mooney in 2009, and, in…

2 years ago

JerseyCAN Chief Rebukes State Education Department For Delaying Release of Student Testing Data

Paula White, Executive Director of JerseyCAN, is frustrated with the New Jersey Education Department’s delayed release of last spring's student…

2 years ago

BREAKING: Some NJ School Districts Used ‘Cheat Sheets’ to Artificially Raise Student Math Scores on State Tests

According to an inside source, some New Jersey school districts distributed "cheat sheets" last month for students taking the state's…

2 years ago

As 60,000 Students Return to Public Charters, Murphy’s Education Department Should Listen to Their Parents

Support among voters and parents for public charter schools is high following student achievement results that proved charter schools accelerated…

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