LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
April 19, 2012
My piece today at WHYY Newsworks looks at the factors that led to a dramatic turnaround for a long-sought piece of legislation. Check it out!
April 17, 2012
For seventy-three (lonely) New Jersey school districts, today is election day. In early February the State Legislature passed a bill allowing school boards to bypass […]
April 16, 2012
Mitt Romney’s “Hot Mic Moment” (hat tip: Charlie Barone) as reported by First Read: Mitt Romney said he learned this advice from his unsuccessful 1994 […]
April 16, 2012
Education Commissioner Chris Cerf announced last year that the DOE would reorganize its local oversight from individual county offices to 7 Regional Achievement Centers (RAC’s), […]
April 16, 2012
Today’s Wall St. Journal lauds Louisiana’s new school choice laws, which: 1) Give each low-income parent a voucher worth an average of $8.5K per year […]
April 15, 2012
The big education news in NJ this week was the DOE’s release of the final list of low-performing “priority schools” that, due to the Feds’ […]