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Water Main Break- Hoboken, NJ 8/28/18 (photo New Jersey 12) Being ready for college means that a high school graduate has the knowledge and skills necessary to qualify for and succeed in entry-level, credit-bearing college courses without the need for remedial coursework . More specifically, College readiness refers to the set of skills, knowledge, and behaviors a high school student should have upon graduation and entering their freshmen year of college. It's all about the ability to find success while studying at an institute of higher learning. Being "College ready" does not mean simply being accepted to college. Being "College ready" is not measured by how much scholarship or financial aid money a graduating class receives. According to Forbes as well as civil rights activist Robert Moses of the Algebra Project , Math is the great equalizer. Math offers equalization in ways that additional money or other resources simply cannot. Even more than a chil...

July 25, 2018 Letter As this letter dated July 25, 2018 indicates, the Office of the Attorney General - Department of Law And Public Safety Division of Civil Rights is looking into the Hoboken Public School District . Regular readers will recall that on April 26, 2018 The Black Parents Workshop expanded their efforts in Bayonne, Jersey City and Hoboken . In May of 2018, The Black Parents Workshop filed a lawsuit claiming racial segregation in NJ schools persists more than six decades after the Supreme Court ruled the practice unconstitutional . It is unclear what relationship, if any, the expanded efforts or lawsuit are connected to the July 25, 2018 letter. Text of letter:  Re:      Hoboken Public School District  The Division on Civil Rights is in the process of gathering information regarding the Hoboken Public School District. Your contact information was provided to us by The Black Parents Workshop Organization. It is our understanding that you...

Many people in the Hoboken School District seem to think that the Hoboken School District should not be considered an "FG" district but rather should be considered an "A" district . I will leave the argument and explanation for the change in designation up to the local district administration and the New Jersey Department of Education. But, in response to some reaction concerning an earlier post about how the Hoboken School District ranked among peer FG districts, I am showing where Hoboken would rank among districts in New Jersey designated as having a District Factor Group designation of "A" when it comes to student progress in elementary school grades 3 to 8. One can argue whether it is better or worse to be ranked 69th out of 71 "FG" districts or 31st out of 36 "A" districts in terms of student effectiveness for Grades 3 to 8. But with a district that spends nearly $30,000 per student, has among the highest teacher salaries in the c...

"Pop-Up Park", Hoboken NJ  In January of 2018 , a new rating system devised by the New Jersey Department of Education and in compliance of federal laws , all 2000 of New Jersey's public schools with be assigned a score of 1 to 100 with 100 being highest. Unfortunately, the scores are not part of the summary reports and are instead embedded in the more detailed school report of each school. This overall 1-100 score combines standardized test results, graduation rates, and absenteeism.  The New Jersey Department of Education said it designed the new ratings to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act, the new federal education law that replaced No Child Left Behind.   The law requires states to "meaningfully differentiate" schools' performance based on a variety of metrics and publish that information on school report cards, said Julie Woods, a policy analyst for the Education Commission of the States, which tracks state policy.  How did the public schools i...