January 27, 2009
…because it’s looking more and more unlikely that local districts will have to start up full day preschools for poor 3 and 4-year-olds this September. […]
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January 26, 2009
Bill Gates, in his 2009 Annual Letter from the Gates Foundation (here), is candid about some failures in his education initiatives, specifically in regard to […]
January 20, 2009
With a toss of a wrench into New Jersey’s school district budgets, Commissioner Lucille Davy sent a letter to all superintendents on Friday recommending that […]
January 3, 2009
We don’t want Princeton to be just adequate — we don’t want to revert to a mean that incorporates everyone in the state. We want […]
December 19, 2008
The DOE has just issued this press release trumpeting an increase in the number of schools that made Adequate Yearly Progress based on last spring’s […]
December 8, 2008
ASAH, the organization that serves private special education schools and agencies in New Jersey, is gearing up for a battle with the DOE over the […]
December 3, 2008
It’s a bad press day for our beleaguered Abbott districts. In Camden, an elementary school principal pleaded guilty yesterday to billing the district for more […]
December 3, 2008
The Star-Ledger reports today that the U.S. District Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by NJASA, the union that represents New Jersey’s school administrators. The suit […]
November 29, 2008
An editorial this week in the Record serves as a sort of rebuttal to Gordon MacInness’ Star-Ledger piece. MacInness argues (see post below) that the […]
November 26, 2008
Gordon MacInnes, a former Assistant Commissioner at the DOE and now a lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School, has a scathing editorial in the Star-Ledger […]
November 25, 2008
The Asbury Park Press had an editorial yesterday urging the State to pull the preschool mandate, calling it “a misguided mandate that’s far too extravagant […]
November 24, 2008
New Jersey School Boards Association had their Delegate Assembly on Saturday, including a panel discussion called “The Challenges, Opportunities, and Future of School District Regionalization.” […]