September 30, 2009
What better advertisement for school district consolidation than the Pascack Valley area of Bergen County comprising four little towns, Montvale, Woodcliff Lake, Hillsdale, and River […]
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August 6, 2009
Chesilhurst School District in Camden County, with a grand total of 195 kids pre-K through 6th grade in one school, has been ordered by the […]
July 31, 2009
School district consolidation recommendations are in from Morris and Ocean counties, but don’t hold your breath. The Star-Ledger reports that the likelihood of implementing the […]
July 4, 2009
Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine has an answer to our question on why Corzine would eliminate non-operating districts five months before the gubernatorial election: No sense? […]
June 11, 2009
The Record has a little blurb today about Ridgefield Public Schools, which just hired a new superintendent, Robert Fazio, for a salary of $210,000. Totally […]
June 8, 2009
The stakes are high: if New Jersey doesn’t provide free public preschool to all poor children, then it has violated its spanking new School Funding […]
June 3, 2009
About two weeks ago, Education Commissioner Lucille Davy sent a memo to N.J. superintendents and special education directors. The purpose of her memo was to […]
June 2, 2009
The New York Times makes the case for consolidating small towns in the tri-state area. New Jersey, of course, is cited as the “extreme example,” […]
May 30, 2009
More Abbott Fall-Out: The press continues to ponder the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday that the School Funding Reform Act (S.F.R.A.) is “constitutionally adequate” . […]
April 13, 2009
The D.O.E. has ordered Executive County Superintendents to file reports by March 2010 on consolidation of school districts, and word is leaking out that the […]
April 2, 2009
Is school district consolidation efficient or inefficient? Today’s papers give us both sides of the argument. First, the Asbury Park Press reports on a panel […]
April 2, 2009
The governor is proud he is raising support for education, but our public boards have not dealt with student achievement in the public schools, nor […]