If We Can Agree on This, We Can Agree on So Much More.
Posted OnDecember 12, 2023 byIt’s not every day that you get the teachers’ union and the charter schools to agree on something. But they did recently on a very important topic: how to get more teachers into classrooms. Both groups successfully urged Governor Murphy to sign legislation to kill New Jersey’s “basic skills test” for teachers. The problem was that…Read More
NEWARK COMMON APP MARKS STRONG LAUNCH
NEWARK COMMON APP MARKS STRONG LAUNCH Innovative Enrollment Portal Opened Friday for Second Year of Operation with Added Schools, and an Accessible and Convenient Application Process www.NewarkCommonApp.org Families flooded the Newark Common App (NCA), which launched the second year of the application and enrollment portal available to all families interested in attending the vast majority…Read More
What Getting Thrown Out Of High School Taught Me About Equity | Op-Ed
When I was 14 years old, the principal of my school asked me a simple question that did not have a simple answer. “Barbara, what’s your address?” It wasn’t so simple because minutes earlier, I had been pulled out of class and told to collect my things from my locker and come to her office….Read More