Yesterday we highlighted the release of new proposed graduation rules from the NJDOE and laid out what they meant for Murphy’s wider approach to education policy.Then we updated the post when the Save Our Schools NJ mysteriously pulled it’s update,…
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Update II: Here’s Adam Clark’s article on the changes and the upcoming press conference. Update: It looks like something went wrong with the rollout of these graduation requirement changes. SOSNJ has deleted it’s statement on the issue. There will apparently…
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I had a conversation with an activist this week who told me that she was conflicted. She’d been doing local and issue-based activism for a decade. Now, she told me, it feels small. There are so many other, bigger things….
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What’s been whispered in Camden for some time is finally out in the open. Arthur Barclay, the fast-rising Camden politician who used support from the Camden County Democratic Committee to secure the line initially for a city council seat, then…
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Those of use who follow New Jersey education politics have long known that South Jersey Democrats had a tight relationship with Christie. So this morning’s scoop by David Wildstein in the New Jersey Globe came as no surprise. Of course Christie…
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Here’s how toxic Betsy DeVos-style “school choice” has become: even DeVos herself is softening her language (if not her policies). There’s reasons for that: 1) the idea that school choice alone can improve student outcomes is increasingly being combatted by…
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There’s been a fair bit of progressive angst in South Jersey after the primaries. Part of that is about the undemocratic ballot used in local elections, and how it makes it very difficult for newcomers to run for office. Part…
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Dr. Andrew Kahrl’s New York Times Op-Ed is worth reading in full. As a scholar of the history of segregation, he ties recent phenomena’s like the Philadelphia Starbucks incident to Jim Crow and beyond. And not just in the South…
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Today at Rutgers’ Bloustein School, we’re reporting on #EdJusticeConf — a conference that deals with critical issues around education reform, social justice, and communities. Here’s the organizers description: Over the past twenty years, neoliberal education reforms have gained increasing momentum…
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UPDATE: Video from the event and images of the PowerPoint slides are found in the comments, below. South Jersey Women for Progressive Change has been working hard to both educate and organize progressives. That ongoing effort continues today at the…
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