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After the Insurrection, It’s Time To Listen To MLK

Guest Blogger January 18, 2021

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Tanesha Peeples is the Deputy Director for Activist Development at brightbeam. This post forst appeared →

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In NJ, Taxpayers Pay Teachers Who Are Full-Time Union Lobbyists. Is That Legal?

Guest Blogger January 13, 2021

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Should New Jersey’s taxpayers—strained under one of the heaviest tax burdens in the country—be paying →

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Local Control Run Wild: How NJ’s Fragmented School System Foments Segregation

Guest Blogger January 5, 2021

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This post, by Tim Evans, analyzes the relationship between school district fragmentation and the role →

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Why Is Education Law Center Discounting Parent Support for Charter Schools in Deference to NJEA?

Guest Blogger January 4, 2021

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Jasmine Morrison is a parent activist in Newark with two sons in charter schools. For →

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Five Tips to Help Children With Special Needs Through the Holidays

Guest Blogger December 17, 2020

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Julie Mower is Executive Director of The Phoenix Center, an accredited non-profit, private school that →

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Half-Truths: A Look Inside New Jersey’s Schools During a Pandemic

Guest Blogger December 16, 2020

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Sarah Mulhern Gross is a National Board-certified English teacher at High Technology High School, a →

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Without Assessment Data, We Won’t Get Our Kids Back on Track.

Guest Blogger December 4, 2020

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This post is by my brightbeam colleague Garris Landon Stroud, a teacher from Greenville, Kentucky →

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This is How School Boards Victimize Parents and Their Children with Disabilities

Guest Blogger November 24, 2020

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Tara Murphy is a SPAN Resource Parent, a Volunteer Advocacy Ambassador for Autism Speaks, member →

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NJ Student’s Letter to New Ed Commissioner: My Teacher Helps Me Gather the Courage to Speak in a Space That Prefers My Silence.

Guest Blogger November 23, 2020

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This letter first appeared in The 74. Dear Dr. Angelica Allen-McMillan, Commissioner of the New →

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Yes, I Dropped Out of Stuyvesant High School to Homeschool Myself

Guest Blogger November 12, 2020

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This is a post by Gregory Wickham, a New York City student. He is the →

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