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October 14, 2008

NJSBA Power Play

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

Zero-Sum Game

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 […]
October 3, 2008

Target Practice

For a fine example of how New Jersey clobbers a flea with an uzi, take a look at this story in today’s Star-Ledger regarding the […]
October 1, 2008

Plop Plop Fizz Fizz

Question: How are local school boards reacting to the reams of regulations recently issued by the DOE?Answer: Pass the alka-seltzer. The first part of these […]
September 20, 2008

Consolidate This!

Here’s a couple of other relevant tidbits from the Ghost of Journalism Past as the State DOE makes a concerted effort to slink by home […]
September 20, 2008

Mud Wrestling

As we witness the current wrestling match between home rule advocates and consolidation converts, it’s useful to move a few feet back from the ring […]
September 18, 2008

Corzine Takes on Locals

Here’s the Star-Ledger’s take on Corzine’s proposal yesterday to raise high school graduation requirements in New Jersey. The bottom line is that kids would take […]
September 12, 2008

NJ School Boards Musketeers

Marie Bilik, Executive Director of New Jersey School Boards Association, has been busy defending the honor of NJ’s 4800 school board members as our public […]
September 11, 2008

Feds Take a Pass

Last night a federal court ruled that the State DOE had indeed overstepped its power by trying to regulate superintendents’ contracts. The suit against the […]
September 9, 2008

Easy Come, Easy Go

The New York Times reports today on an ongoing dispute about the economics and politics of school construction in New Jersey, specifically the allocation of […]
September 9, 2008

Check Your Blind Spot

New Jersey’s 615 school districts weep inefficiency. So it’s old news that the State is pushing hard on mergers of smaller towns. The Burlington County […]