November 6, 2008
In a memo released Monday, Education Commissioner Lucille Davy announced that the U.S. Department of Education had approved some New Jersey slippage in our nation’s […]
November 3, 2008
The Record reports today on the lawsuit pressed by the New Jersey Association of School Administrators against the Department of Education. After the negative media […]
November 2, 2008
Here are two vignettes from the NJSBA convention. The first one: it’s Tuesday afternoon, and the Atlantic City Convention Center is way below capacity: school […]
October 31, 2008
The State Legislative Update panel at the NJSBA convention might have been standing-room-only because of Corzine’s last-minute appearance (see here), but the crowd, mainly comprising […]
October 30, 2008
The New Jersey School Boards Association annual convention is normally a staid event: long days wandering through the vendors’ exhibits and picking up free pens […]
October 29, 2008
We’re live-blogging from the New Jersey School Boards Association annual convention in Atlantic City — 10,000 school board members, business administrators, superintendents, vendors, NJSBA reps. […]
October 27, 2008
Brace yourselves. The new scores for the state assessments are coming out and they’re not pretty. Two distinct elements contribute to the lack of glamour: […]
October 16, 2008
There’s lots of talk in local papers today about the swelling dropout rate in New Jersey’s public high schools. This topic of the day was […]
October 14, 2008
In yet another sign of New Jersey’s struggle over home rule, the Asbury Park Press editorialized yesterday that, in wake of the diploma mill scandal […]
October 13, 2008
There’s daily chatter about the tussle in New Jersey between local school districts and the State Department of Education. Our beloved system of home rule […]