Expect “huge political pushback,” says Rutgers education policy expert Julia Sass Rubin, who co-founded a grassroots group that opposes the expansion of charter schools without approval from the local school board and voters. Former Republican Gov. Chris Christie expanded charters dramatically in Newark and Camden but was blocked from a similar push in the suburbs.
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People who knew someone ill with or who died from COVID-19 are more likely to get COVID-19 vaccine
The article "Association of death or illness from COVID-19 among family and friends on vaccine uptake within four months of the Emergency Use Authorization. Findings from a national survey in the United States" written by Saurabh Kalra, Deepak Kalra, Irina Grafova,...
In NJ, progressives mobilize against ‘right-wing extremism’ on sex ed, LGBTQ school policies
Some of New Jersey’s most powerful political fundraisers and an increasingly organized wave of progressive parents and activists are working to defend the state’s controversial sex education standards, LGBTQ-centric curricula and diversity initiatives they say...