June 18, 2010
David Sciarra, Executive Director of the Education Law Center, excoriates the NJ Department of Education in the most recent widget to emerge from ELC’s press […]
May 28, 2010
Word’s out: Ed. Comm. Schundler and NJEA’s Barbara Keshishian and Vince Giordano made a deal, and local bargaining units will sign off on NJ’s Race […]
May 26, 2010
The Record reports that as of yesterday 292 districts out of our 658 districts and charters had sent back their Memoranda of Understanding, signifying that […]
May 20, 2010
This afternoon the State Senate has 31 bills on its docket: one that upgrades penalties for drag racing, one that designates September 26th of each […]
May 3, 2010
Are the massive failure rates of students who took this year’s Alternative High School Assessment (AHSA) a failure of teaching or testing? That’s the heart […]
April 30, 2010
The New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association has an update on our Race To The Top application, due June 1st (32 days from now, but […]
April 27, 2010
My heart is crushed right now just because he worked hard to reach this point,” [Beyonka] Walden-Utley said about her youngest son. “Please understand, I […]
April 23, 2010
On June 1st, Race To The Top applications are due for states trying for the second round of the federal competition for stimulus funds. After […]
April 19, 2010
Last Tuesday the Education Law Center (ELC) sent a letter to Commissioner Bret Schundler requesting that he “set aside the results of last January’s Alternate […]
April 6, 2010
Now that the Common Core State Standards Initiative has released proposed national standards for math and language arts, reviews are starting to come in. The […]