This is cross-posted from the Local Knowledge Blog. There was a big feature over the weekend on millennials in Camden. It featured a lot of folks I know and consider friends — and it’s cool to see that work highlighted. At…
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Camden has America’s least democratic school district. The city has an appointed board of education, that appointed board can’t effect change because the board is “advisory” while the district is under state takeover, and with the rapid increase of renaissance…
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Just a quick, informal invitation here. I’m giving a research talk titled: “Nonprofit Segregation: the Exclusion and Impact of White Nonprofit Networks”. It’s based on a book chapter that my colleague Dr. Brandi Blessett and I are co-authoring in a…
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For years there has been a tenuous educational consensus in New Jersey. First with then Newark-mayor Cory Booker who partnered with Chris Christie to radically alter the Newark education system. Once that coalition fell apart (in no small part due…
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The fight for local control in Newark has been long and hard. You’d forgive public education advocates if they took a deep breath. But local control is not an end state, and its advocates know that the school board is…
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If it sounds wonky, that’s because it is. This afternoon, we’ll be covering the Walter Rand Center’s Our Piece of the Pie: Distribution of State Funds to Municipalities in North, Central, and South Jersey. The event features research by Dr. Michael Hayes….
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Today’s opinion piece by friend and Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist Kevin Riordan was a bromance breakup letter with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. And it wasn’t Kevin, it was Phil. The article makes two arguments: 1) that Murphy is planning to…
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I wanted to highlight and amplify an event being held tomorrow in Camden, NJ by Standing in Solidarity (S.I.S.) — a group of Camden women working and organizing for women’s issues. They’ve been organizing for months behind the scenes, but…
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We’ve been featuring inspiring video after inspiring video from New Jersey March for Our Lives events over the weekend. But there’s a moment from the Haddon Heights march that Phaedra Trethan at the Courier-Post picked up on that’s flown under…
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Last night, Reveal (from the Center for Investigative Reporting) put together a panel for Camden residents. Reveal has been doing these panels nationally to help residents start to combat discrimination that Reveal has uncovered in mortgage lending across the country…
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