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Newark charter schools hit for serving too many Black students. That’s nuts. | Moran Today 6:45 AM The New Jersey Devils, Prudential Center and United Airlines teamed up to surprise Newarks Phillips Academy Charter School students with an outdoor hockey rink to help kick off the beginning of their school year on Monday, August 27, 2018. Andrew Miller ImagesAndrew Miller Images Facebook Share The ferocious segregation in New Jersey’s public schools is a legacy of home rule, the doctrine tha...

Ohio legislators are trying to pass major reforms to the state’s school funding model, a model that the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional four times. If House Bill 1 – known as the Fair School Funding Plan – passes, many of the changes would have Ohio following in the footsteps of states already touted for their education funding models, including New Jersey and Wyoming. In 1981, David Sciarra and the Education Law Center, a legal defense fund, sued the state of New Jersey, a...

Credit: (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP) April 28, 2021: President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. For all of New Jersey’s gains in building a nationally recognized preschool program over the past two decades, the reality is it is still serving only about a third of eligible children, if that. Now President Joe Biden has expanded the possibilities, in announcing in his address to Congress this week his American Families Pla...

Credit: (David Handschuh/Chalkbeat) North Star Academy was one of the charters that expanded in Newark. Every few years, New Jersey’s courts have taken up the ever-controversial topic of charter schools, largely deferring to the executive branch as to how it meets its statutory and constitutional obligations in overseeing the privately run schools. This is one of those years, as the state Supreme Court was back on the topic again Monday, hearing oral arguments in a challenge over the unpreced...

TRENTON, N.J. (CN) — The placement of over 6,000 students enrolled in Newark charter schools sparked concern within the New Jersey Supreme Court Monday during arguments opposing the expansion of charter schools. “I don’t know how you escape that what you’re ultimately seeking is an analysis that ends with a remedy that takes these children out of charter schools,” Justice Anne Patterson said during oral arguments Monday. In 2016 the state’s commissioner of education approved enrollm...

Shutterstock House Bill 1 could have Ohio following in the footsteps of states with school funding models that are seen as very successful, most notably New Jersey and Wyoming. Ohio legislators are trying to pass major reforms to the state’s school funding model, a model that the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional four times. If House Bill 1 – known as the Fair School Funding Plan – passes, many of the changes would have Ohio following in the footsteps of states already tou...

Here comes a flood of federal money. Will Jersey squander it? | Moran Updated Mar 01, 2021; Posted Feb 28, 2021 Gov. Phil Murphy signs legislation to permanently establish the Community College Opportunity Grant Program in state law at Hudson County Community College in Jersey City, Friday, His budget would increase spending by 9 percent, before federeal aid arrives.. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal) Facebook Share New Jersey is flush these days, with Gov. Phil Murphy proposing the b...

N.J. digital divide down to 400 students who don’t have access to a computer or internet connection, Murphy says Updated Feb 04, 2021; Posted Feb 03, 2021 Wednesday, April 8, 2020 - Trenton Public Schools (TPS) distribute laptop computers to students for use at home during the statewide emergency. In addition to a limited number of home stops, the three distribution points are the Board of Education building, Trenton Central High School, and the Daylight Twilight SchoolMichael Mancuso | N...

‘Unfortunately, this administration has been no different in this regard than its predecessors,’ says advocate  Paterson’s School No. 14, built in 1886, is one of the many crumbling schools around the state. A four-decade legal battle over public school funding has landed back in the New Jersey Supreme Court, with a prominent watchdog group accusing state officials of again ignoring a constitutional mandate to repair and replace aging and shoddy school buildings in many of the state’s ...

Here's a puzzling question: Why is it that Trenton can find billions of dollars for corporate tax breaks, but can't scare up money for school funding