Latest post: Wake Up Call NJ's Bizarre Smear Against Public Education jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/wake...

Fact Checking "The reading wars are ending. Phonics won." (Washington Post Editorial Board) radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/14/f...

If you base your vote on this issue, you're a spoiled child. Just keep a few reusable bags in the car and grow up! "Republican seeking to become NJ governor pledges return of plastic bags" newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/10/n...

And the danger of that wealth is amplified by the power we've allllowed it to buy.

Power to influence elections.
Power to mold institutions.
Power to move markets.
Power to manipulate media.
Power to punish anyone who tries to challenge or question their power.

New post: Wake Up Call NJ's Bizarre Smear Against Public Education jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/wake... A new education "reform" outfit starts a bizarre war with a high-performing local school district. Of course, they get everything wrong.

Virtually every staffer that helps parents of children with special needs is gone from the Dept of Education. This is simply cruelty. abcnews.go.com/Politics/spe...

New Post: Jack Ciattarelli's Tax Plan Is a Disaster For Schools AND Taxpayers jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/jack... The Republican candidate for NJ gov wants to take away state aid from the districts that need it most and give it to districts that already have the lowest property tax rates.

Special ed., ensuring children with disabilities are educated in public schools, has faced pushback since its start. Many politicians never wanted to fund it. Now the Trump admin. and Linda McMahon will end it. Pick a post below.

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

New post: Debunking David Brooks on Education jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/debu... No, standards have not decreased, and blue states are not "languishing" compared to red ones.

This!!! This is who teachers are … and this is what they do to protect ( and teach) our young people!! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/n...

“The questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.” - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

We are sorely mistaken if we think a majority of Supreme Court justices care more about the rule of law & democracy than their own egos and interests. That's why they'll cede power to an autocrat, to keep all the trappings & prestige of the office. After all, they never pick country over themselves.

This BTW, is not a good answer, b/c Farage is most definitely not describing CRT. Don't let these people get away with their race-baiting frameworks.

“They are poisoning our kids. They are telling them to be ashamed of their country." Does it make me feel better to know this crap isn't confined to the US? No, it does not. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Don't threaten us with a good time:

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

There are two very different plans for public schools in New Jersey. One puts students and educators first. The other takes New Jersey backward.

New post: When It Comes To School Finance, Ciattarelli Doesn't Know Jack: Part 2 jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/when... Believe it or not, lots of suburban NJ school districts spend more than Newark, even though their students are far less likely to be in poverty.

Me every time a pundit like David Brooks writes about NAEP score differences between states:

Both-sides-ism is going to destroy this country.

Thank you for running. I know firsthand what a sacrifice it is for you and your family.