October 17, 2008

Home Rule Exodus

The Star-Ledger reports today on the increasing pressure on New Jersey’s 566 municipalities to consolidate services such as animal control, health services, police departments, and […]
October 17, 2008

School Construction Chief Rumor

The Jersey blog PolitickerNJ is reporting that Scott Weiner, who “retired” last month from the New Jersey Schools Development Authority (that’s the re-do of the […]
October 16, 2008

Cognitive Dissonance

There’s lots of talk in local papers today about the swelling dropout rate in New Jersey’s public high schools. This topic of the day was […]
October 14, 2008

NJSBA Power Play

In yet another sign of New Jersey’s struggle over home rule, the Asbury Park Press editorialized yesterday that, in wake of the diploma mill scandal […]
October 13, 2008

Zero-Sum Game

There’s daily chatter about the tussle in New Jersey between local school districts and the State Department of Education. Our beloved system of home rule […]
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