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NJ Spotlight--Op-Ed: COVID-19 highlights racial inequities in school funding
Review of state data shows that students of color lack the same instruction options during the pandemic as do their white counterparts
Mark Weber | October 15, 2020 | Opinion, Education
Star Ledger--N.J. district wanted to go remote for 2 weeks. Vacations to coronavirus hot spots are to blame.
Katie Kausch | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com| Updated Oct 14, 2020; Posted Oct 14, 2020
Star Ledger--Murphy directs N.J. agencies to do a better job at preventing and punishing bias crimes
Advance Media for NJ.comMichael Mancuso | NJ Advance Med
By Blake Nelson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com| Updated Oct 14, 2020; Posted Oct 14, 2020
Star Ledger--NJSIAA lost $640,000 from COVID-19 in 2019-20, audit shows
Brian Deakyne | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com| Updated Oct 14, 2020; Posted Oct 14, 2020
NY Times--Why Students Can’t Get Laptops
A surge in worldwide demand for low-cost laptops has created shipment delays and pitted desperate schools against one another.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/students-laptops-digitial-divide.html
Amelia Nierenberg and Adam Pasick| Oct. 14, 2020
Education Week--The Essential Traits of a Positive School Climate
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/10/14/the-essential-traits-of-a-positive-school.html
Arianna Prothero| October 13, 2020
Politics K-12 (via Education Week)-There's No Constitutional Right to Civics Education, a Federal Judge Reluctantly Concludes
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2020/10/theres_no_constitutional_right.html
Stephen Sawchuk on October 14, 2020 5:05 PM
Education Dive--Secondary school suspensions cost some districts over a year of instruction
https://www.educationdive.com/news/districts-lose-instruction-time-due-to-suspensions/586976/
Kara Arundel | Oct. 14, 2020
