LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
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 18, 2008
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
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
… 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 16, 2008
The Press of Atlantic City advocates moving school board elections to November. Their editorial today takes on the specious argument that November elections would politicize […]
December 15, 2008
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 […]