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06/11/2026
What happens when a state ed system puts adult interests above the needs of students?
New Report: New Jersey Is Failing To Teach Reading Effectively. Fixes Here. - NJ Education Report Does ensuring new teachers are ready for prime time require a Department of Education that is less deferential to local control .
"In the most troubling cases, the price of speaking up isn’t just wasting your time or being ignored. It’s retaliation — and sometimes, it’s the children who pay for it."
06/03/2026
The Sherrill Administration has another choice to make on national tests. What do you think?
Can the Democratic Establishment in New Jersey Get to Yes? - NJ Education Report If information is power, in the realm of public education New Jersey families are 99 pound weaklings. We need more information.
05/27/2026
Is NJEA getting weaker or stronger? And what does that mean for kids? New rankings out!
New Rankings: Teacher Unions Are Getting Weaker But What About NJEA? - NJ Education Report , New Jersey’s Education Association is the fourth strongest among all states and the District of Columbia.
05/19/2026
"Bottom line: Things are not just fine. Until those in charge touch grass, our children will continue floating on clouds of pretense that leave them unprepared for life after high school."
How We Start Fixing New Jersey Schools - NJ Education Report NJ’s leaders have a choice to make: Do we continue pretense or do we concentrate power with the state to upgrade accountability?
05/06/2026
We need more than a few tweaks. Here are six ideas.
Six Suggestions For Reining In NJ's School Costs - NJ Education Report About two weeks ago I wrote that, amid the frantic calls to fix New Jersey’s (broken) school funding formula, we should think more strategically about […]
Where would you send your kid? (And will Gov. Sherrill be able to escape the claws of NJEA?)
04/27/2026
Let's do the math.
New Jersey Public School Enrollment Will Drop 8%. What Needs to Change? - NJ Education Report New research, based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), shows that New Jersey is one of 36 states where public student […]
04/22/2026
Boards and administrators ignore the public -- captive audience, why bother? Here is what needs to change.
They Don’t Have to Answer to You—And That’s the Problem - NJ Education Report Too many districts operate under a different standard: one where they don’t have to answer, don’t have to engage, and don’t have to improve.
04/20/2026
I’m not saying we shouldn’t spend more money. But we have an opportunity to step back and be strategic about how we pull this off.
Fixing NJ’s Broken School Funding Formula: A Call for Real Action - NJ Education Report We need leaders to inculcate a cultural shift in the way we think about the state's role in overseeing school districts.