LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
June 30, 2010
Interdistrict school choice is inscribed in law after an Assembly vote yesterday, 78-0. Of course it’s all voluntary: districts apply, if the spirit moves them, […]
June 29, 2010
Professor Pat McGuinn of Drew University, sitting in for Rick Hess at Edweek, examines the growing rift within the Democratic Party over national education reform. […]
June 28, 2010
Last week a divided Jersey City Board of Education extended Superintendent Charles T. Epps Jr.’s contract until 2013. Today one of the newly-elected Board members […]
June 27, 2010
Edweek’s Pat McGuinn on dueling interpretations of NJ’s NAEP scores, courtesy of NJEA’s and Christie Administration spokespeople: A few weeks ago, when new National Assessment […]
June 25, 2010
Here’s Education Law Center’s David Sciarra on the non-movement (according to NJ Spotlight) of the Opportunity Scholarship Act, or the voucher bill: “We don’t want […]
June 25, 2010
Joan Whitlow in the Star-Ledger looks thoughtfully at five Newark City schools that have garnered almost half of the $45 million in federal improvement grants […]