LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
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.” […]
November 21, 2008
New Jersey’s noble quest to give kids equal educational opportunity regardless of economic circumstance skitters along. This quixotic journey, otherwise known as Abbott v. Burke, […]
November 19, 2008
The DOE just released all 178 pages of the second section of 6A, School District Fiscal Accountability, Efficiency, and Budgeting Procedures. Here it is for […]
November 19, 2008
The New Jersey State Supreme Court yesterday rejected the State Legislature’s attempt to declassify Abbott districts by enacting the 2008 School Funding Reform Act (SFRA), […]
November 18, 2008
The New York Times reports today that the President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, is willing to consider tenure and merit pay. […]
November 17, 2008
Jay Matthews of the Washington Post reports today on national opposition to using growth models to evaluate teacher performance, i.e., measuring each student’s progress instead […]