The 64 Floor

Asbury Park Lowers 64 Floor: Inside Info on New Grading Rules, Student Suspensions, and Special Education

NJ Education Report has received a trove of new information from Asbury Park, courtesy of inside sources who will remain…

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

NAEP, San Francisco, and Murphy’s Approach to ‘Social Justice’

Who knew New Jersey was an educational trend-setter? Yesterday Jay Mathews at the Washington Post described how pandemic accommodations that…

2 years ago

Inside Scoop From Yesterday’s State Board of Education Meeting With Murphy Administration Stuck on the 64 Floor

At yesterday’s State Board of Education monthly public meeting, the 64 Floor legacy of Gov. Murphy’s former commissioner Lamont Repollet…

2 years ago

NJ Education Commissioner Makes the Right Call On Newark Superintendent’s Crooked Real Estate Deals!

It’s not often that I get a chance to cheer for New Jersey Acting Commissioner of Education Angelica Allen-McMillan. For…

2 years ago

Play (Foot)Ball! Or, Miracle in Asbury Park

Last Friday Asbury Park Superintendent Rashawn Adams announced the varsity football team, the Blue Bishops, would forfeit their first game…

2 years ago

ANALYSIS: How Two Asbury Park School Board Members–and the Superintendent– Ended Up Facing Ethics Charges

Sometimes a small incident serves as an emblem of greater rot, the way a seemingly harmless mole turns out to…

2 years ago

COMMENTARY: These Three NJ Schools Defy Murphy Administration’s Push for Low Standards

Hindsight is golden but here’s what we know: School closures and remote instruction during the 2020-2021 school year were academic…

2 years ago

COMMENTARY: New Jersey Educators Need a New Role Model and They’ve Got One in David Banks

The whole goal here is to prepare kids to be able to be college and workforce ready. A lot of…

3 years ago

ANALYSIS: NJ Ed Department’s Proposal for Dumbed-Down Tests Is 64 Floor Redux

Two years ago, under the leadership of Phil Murphy's Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet, the State Board of Education voted 12-1…

3 years ago