January 26, 2012
During President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, he dropped in a proposal that students should not be permitted to leave high school […]
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January 26, 2012
Yesterday there were 38 New Jersey school boards that had voted to move their elections to November. Today, just a week after passage of the […]
January 5, 2012
How pissed off is Education Law Center over the proposed Urban Hope Act, the fast-tracked bill that would (in its most recent incarnation) build a […]
January 4, 2012
Earlier this week I commented on Dr. Bruce Baker’s description of New Jersey’s historical preference for the “extreme segregation” of poor minority kids into chronically […]
January 3, 2012
NJ’s Education Law Center has just released a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan requesting that NJ’s application for a waiver from the […]
December 23, 2011
The Courier-Post is all over Camden Public Schools’ failure to accurately report incidents of violence and vandalism. (See earlier story here.) Each year, per state […]
December 8, 2011
The NJ Board of Education’s Closing the Achievement Gap Task Force has started meeting and will soon hold public hearings. The Task Force comprises 10 […]
November 22, 2011
The Common Sense Institute of New Jersey, a libertarian organization that opposes current levels of government spending, has just put out a new report called […]
November 18, 2011
This past March the ACLU-NJ filed a lawsuit against the NJ DOE to get the list of volunteers who reviewed the last round of charter […]
November 17, 2011
New Jersey’s application to the Feds for a waiver from the strictures of No Child Left Behind includes a wishlist of legislative bills that would […]
November 8, 2011
The Record has a two-part piece (here and here) on a new trend among NJ school districts: serving students with disabilities within the public system […]
November 4, 2011
The NJ State DOE has just released a report commissioned by Denver-based Augenblick Palaich and Associates (APA), which seeks to answer the question, does the […]