Did you know that in New Jersey only 47% of adults read at middle school-level? In Essex, Hudson, and Passaic counties it’s ten points lower.
Friday morning Asbury Park staff and students arrived at school to find that Superintendent Sancha Gray was closing the district because too many staff members
Last year the Trump Administration allowed states to waive annual standardized testing due to all-remote instruction. This year the Biden Administration cut states a break,
A new working paper out from Brown University studies the impact of state takeovers on 35 school districts. The authors, Drs. Beth E. Schueler and
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
Few education topics get parents, teachers, and school leaders more riled up than discussions about using results from student tests to measure the quality of
Janellen Duffy is a senior adviser to JerseyCAN: The New Jersey Campaign for Achievement Now. This first appeared in NJ Spotlight. $4.3 billion dollars. That
It’s been 446 days since teachers in Paterson Public Schools set foot in their classrooms but yesterday they walked in. Students with disabilities who learn
This is a guest editorial by Gene Bouie, long-time member of the Trenton Board of Education. It originally appeared in the Trentonian. For context, the
The headline says it all in today’s Trentonian: “Trenton Public Schools board hires new superintendent with prior district experience.” That’s true: the district hasn’t had