January 26, 2011
Yut’se Thomas, Acting Assistant Commissioner, writes in a memo to superintendents and business administrators, For purposes of developing your preliminary budgets, districts should make allowances […]
January 13, 2011
Liam Julian at Fordham’s Flypaper blog considers Gov. Christie’s comment during his State of the State speech that “teaching can no longer be the only […]
January 6, 2011
There’s two big education stories circling today: the NJ Supreme Court’s hearing on whether Gov. Christie’s school aid cuts violated the Constitution, and the most […]
January 4, 2011
The Record reports today that the NJ DOE has drawn up changes to credential requirements for superintendents of “struggling school districts.” Taking a page, perhaps, […]
January 3, 2011
Here’s a quote from a book review yesterday of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eugene Robinson’s “Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America.” According to reviewer Raymond Arsenault, […]
December 22, 2010
Local school district referenda on school construction often serve as a barometer of the voters’ willingness to support costs of public education. If that truism […]
December 21, 2010
that the Department of Education is understaffed and overwhelmed with tasks as diverse as completing design and construction of a data system capable of linking […]
December 16, 2010
NJEA President Barbara Keshishian in the Asbury Park Press bemoans the “test score culture” that has invaded our public schools like a stealthy virus, begotten […]
December 7, 2010
Sometime this afternoon, NJEA promises, it will unveil its blueprint for reforming our outdated tenure laws and using student growth as a measure of teacher […]
December 6, 2010
NJ Spotlight says that the short list includes Acting Commissioner Rochelle Hendricks, Christopher Cerf, Andy Smarick, Deborah Gist, and Michelle Rhee (though we just heard […]