Student Proficiency
Asbury Park Mayor: The District’s Spending is Killing the City, With School Taxes Up 73%
Asbury Park school taxes have increased more over the last seven years than any other New Jersey town, according to…
FLYNN: Delayed Release of Test Scores Shows Murphy’s Education Department Is Guided By Politics, Not What’s Best for Children
These are comments from New Jersey Assemblywoman Victoria Flynn on the State Education Department's (NJDOE) delayed and partial release of…
You May Not Like Student Test Results But Here’s How We Know They’re Accurate
Local news media is chock-full of reports on yesterday's long-delayed release from the Murphy Administration's Department of Education of last…
SCOOP: First Peek at New Jersey State Test Scores!
Today Acting Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan and her team will unveil student levels of proficiency as gauged by last spring's…
State Takeovers of School Districts Don’t Work–Except in Camden
A new paper from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, authored by Beth Schueler and Joshua Bleiberg and titled…
What Is the Cost of the Murphy’s Administration’s Decision to Conceal Data on Student Learning Loss?
This is extraordinarily delayed. That's Senate Majority Leader Teresa Ruiz on the state Department of Education's decision to delay releasing…
Newark Superintendent Promised to Fix the Chronic Absenteeism Problem. New Data Shows He Hasn’t.
More than half of our students were rarely absent at 50.7%. That’s Rochanda Jackson, executive director of Newark schools’ Office…
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…
JAMES: Roger, You Are the Newark Superintendent. Why Are You Lying To Us?
As many of you have read over the months, I like to try to create some good trouble in Newark.…
Is Newark’s Superintendent Delusional? Don’t Bother Asking the School Board.
Newark Superintendent Roger León lies to the public with impunity, a tic unrestrained by the district’s Board of Education which…