December 29, 2008

NJEA’s “Outrageous Statement”

In “The Monopolist Turns Free-Marketer,” Gregg Edwards describes the new legislation that establishes a program for low-income kids in seven failing urban school districts to […]
December 19, 2008

Quick Break

Seasons greetings to all — and a note that blogging will be extremely light over the next week. But we’ll be back shortly, fully refreshed […]
December 19, 2008

New AYP Numbers Out

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 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 […]
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