March 28, 2025
Early this week the New York Times surveyed New Jersey’s gubernatorial candidates, six Democrats and three Republicans, on where they stand on a variety of […]
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September 1, 2017
Superintendents aren’t going to advocate for eliminating their jobs. School business administrators aren’t going to advocate for eliminating their jobs. School boards are not going […]
September 24, 2014
Education Law Center has joined the plaintiffs in the “Bacon” cases, a lawsuit that charges that sixteen small rural districts in New Jersey are deprived […]
December 22, 2010
James Ahearn of The Record on superintendent salary caps: Christie isn’t the first American governor to peg superintendent salaries to his own. Minnesota used to […]
December 13, 2010
The Asbury Park Press has this to say about school district consolidation: “it’s dead in the water, at least for now.” True enough. In 2007 […]
September 14, 2010
Vince Giordano, the overpaid director of the state teachers union, sat at the witness table in a Senate committee room Monday and predicted doom and […]
June 1, 2010
Never mind. That’s the report from New Jersey School Boards Association based on remarks from Bret Schundler regarding “the centerpiece of 2007 legislation,” reducing the […]
March 2, 2010
March 2010 is the presumptive date for Executive County Superintendents to file recommendations with the State DOE on consolidating non-K-12 school districts, according to marching […]
December 16, 2009
Here’s Governor-Elect Christie (courtesy of the Asbury Park Press) on how to cut school costs, the main driver of N.J.’s crippling property taxes: 1) Eliminate […]
November 30, 2009
Today’s Trenton Times features an editorial by Dr. James Deneen, an ETS program director, and Dr. Carmen Cantanese, a former VP at Sarnoff, who highlight […]
November 20, 2009
If we are to ultimately control the cost of government . . . we are going to have to deal with the issue of consolidation […]
October 15, 2009
Policy wonks always favor the idea of merging municipalities and school districts. As property taxes soar, more and more voters agree. The devil, of course, […]