February 7, 2013
The New Jersey Department of Education has released two reports that evaluate the status of the first-year pilot for evaluating teachers. One was prepared by […]
February 7, 2013
NJ Spotlight reports on yesterday’s State Board of Education meeting at which the DOE proposed a number of changes in regulations regarding special education. (See […]
February 6, 2013
Today the State Board of Education will consider some proposed amendments to special education regulations as part of its regular meeting. (Agenda here.) While many […]
February 1, 2013
One more thought on the Newark civil rights complaint (see below): the parent group in Newark argues that the NJ DOE’s intervention in their failing […]
February 1, 2013
NJ Spotlight has been covering (here and here) the activities of a group of Newark parents who filed a civil rights complaint against Newark Public […]
January 24, 2013
NJ Spotlight features today an analysis of Ed. Comm. Cerf’s new proposal, contained in the state’s Education Adequacy Report, of the amounts that the State […]
January 2, 2013
A special education case came through the transom last week, courtesy of a group of parents in Millburn, New Jersey. The case pinpoints a few […]
December 13, 2012
New Jersey School Boards Association has no truck with a new DOE proposal that would let school superintendents unilaterally call for school board meetings. Currently, […]
December 11, 2012
At last week’s meeting of the NJ State Board of Education, reports the Courier-Post, much attention was focused on the dismal high school graduation rate […]
November 28, 2012
Everyone’s talking about the new CREDO study, just released yesterday. The highly-regarded Stanford study looks at the performance of charter schools in New Jersey. Here’s […]