(This is a press release.) In June of 2020 First Lady Tammy Murphy announced that the New Jersey State Board of Education adopted her initiative
Reverend David Jefferson, Sr. Esq is the senior pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church, the largest Congregation in the City of Newark. This first appeared
(This is a press release.) Today, marks a historic moment in Newark’s history, as over 38,000 students returned back from summer vacation on their first
Last Friday Asbury Park Superintendent Rashawn Adams announced the varsity football team, the Blue Bishops, would forfeit their first game against a Newark high school,
Today the National Assessment for Educational Progress, or NAEP, released test scores for fourth-graders, mostly nine years old, and they are grim: math scores dropped
On Friday Summit Assets, a private investing group that had a contract with Newark Public Schools to build a new high school, announced its withdrawal
Support among voters and parents for public charter schools is high following student achievement results that proved charter schools accelerated learning during the pandemic. The
Michael J. Petrilli is the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. David Griffith is the institute’s associate director for research and the author of
Let’s start with a history lesson: in 1882, before computers, software engineering, and artificial intelligence were even a glint in the nation’s eye, a group
Sharif El-Mekki is the founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development. He is a former principal of Mastery Charter School–Shoemaker Campus and