December 18, 2008

The Ethics of Home Rule

There’s a great piece in the New York Times today by Peter Applebome that profiles a seventy-year-old retired T.V. journalist who haunts school board meetings […]
December 18, 2008

Reality-Check for Preschools

The directive from the DOE to establish public preschools for all economically-disadvantaged 3-5 year-olds has hit a wall: while school districts are still required to […]
December 18, 2008

Rumor Has it…

… that the bill to move school board elections to November has stalled in the Senate and currently resides somewhere in legislative purgatory. Meanwhile, the […]
December 15, 2008

Teacher Tenure

All of a sudden, teacher job tenure, typically the third rail of education politics, is a heightened topic for discussion. Is it Barak Obama’s rumored […]
December 14, 2008

Sunday Afternoon Leftovers

The Star-Ledger’s Editorial Board agrees that school board elections should be moved to November, even though “those running the schools like it when fewer voters […]
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