Did ‘political payback’ matter more to Murphy and Repollet than the wishes of parents desperate for alternatives to poorly-performing public schools?

Follow the money behind two-pronged legal and academic attack. Realize the endgame is a moratorium on charters

Promising to scrap PARCC on Day 1 made for a good sound bite, but it makes for bad education policy

As state high-school graduation rates continue to climb, we need to assess if we're doing our grads a grave disservice

Academic improvement, higher standards for students and educators, parent empowerment through school choice signal hard-won cohesion for a fractured district in a fragmented state

It’s easy to mock the soon-to-be-ex governor; it’s harder to admit he’s leaving NJ’s public schools in better shape than he found them

A wonk-free assessment of the Every Student Succeeds Act and how it can refocus discussions about New Jersey schools onto more accurate rankings of quality ...

Accusations that charters don’t want to deal with special-ed costs and challenges are getting us — and our children — nowhere

Lakewood public school students — black, Latino, and economically disadvantaged — are deprived of their constitutionally guaranteed thorough and efficient of education

A recently approved bill commits nearly $17 million in state money to busing the town’s Orthodox Jewish students who attend yeshivas or private day schools

Consider this: One-third of the incoming class at Rutgers had to take remedial classes for subjects they should have mastered in high school

Formula overcompensates some school districts while completely ignoring others dire need of more school aid

The real problem with pre-PARCC student assessments is that ASK scores trended high, giving us an inflated sense of student proficiency

Capping standardized testing at 2 percent of instruction time should overjoy the opt-out movement. So why are they outraged?

Ras Baraka hasn’t just cooled the campaign rhetoric, he’s proven that he knows the value of eclectic and diversified approaches to a troubled school system

Are we being over-optimistic when it comes to how well NJ’s middle-class students are being prepared for college?

Governor and teachers union are willing to sacrifice student well-being to personal and political gains

The results of standardized tests, which revealed the yawning gulf between rich and poor students, played a key role in the Abbott rulings

NJ’s kids deserve demanding standardized tests, and we all need the data they deliver

The union is wasting its time and making leaders look like wimps by denying the 'joint accord' mentioned by Christie in his budget address