December 17, 2014
Check out today’s editorial in NJ Spotlight by Rick Pressler, interim head of New Jersey Charter School Association. Here he addresses the insistence of anti-school […]
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December 4, 2014
I just ran across this National Bureau of Economic Research paper called “How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?” Authors Leonardo Bursztyn and Robert Jensen […]
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 […]
July 29, 2014
State Auditor Stephen Eells has issued a report that accuses Gov. Christie of failing to appoint the necessary Executive County Superintendents (ECS’s), one for each […]
June 6, 2014
The Philadelphia Inquirer has this to say about “the insidious proliferation of charter schools” in New Jersey and Pennsylvania: Both New Jersey and Pennsylvania are […]
June 5, 2014
Here’s today’s WHYY Newsworks column: Summer’s lethargy is nearly upon us, but the New Jersey Legislature is steaming ahead, at least in the arena of […]
February 10, 2014
Matthew Yglesias considers East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana, a wealthy neighborhood that wants to secede from the local school district in order to avoid […]
February 6, 2014
No, that was no slip of the tongue the other day: Sen. President Sweeney is serious about a zero tax increase cap for municipalities and […]
January 13, 2014
Here’s how it starts (minus some stats in the first paragraph): It’s an old problem: New Jersey has one of the most segregated public school […]
November 6, 2013
Today’s Business Section of the New York Times has an article by Eduardo Porter about the inequitable distribution of public money to school districts within […]
October 29, 2013
Here’s a blow for school choice supporters: the Courier Post reports today that the NJ Department of Education has capped enrollment for the state’s popular […]
October 11, 2013
A new Rutgers University report on so-called apartheid schools in New Jersey says that 26 percent of black students and 13 percent of Latino students […]