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 […]
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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 […]
July 25, 2010
What everyone knows – and few will admit – is that the only way to reduce property taxes in New Jersey is to cut the […]
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 […]
May 17, 2010
Lots of coverage over the last few days regarding staff compensation in school districts. Yesterday’s Star-Ledger, for example, features an analysis of teacher compensation across […]
April 6, 2010
According to New Jersey Newsroom, the Christie Administration wants to encourage school districts to merge or at least agree to have one set of administrators […]
April 5, 2010
The New York Times education writer, Winnie Hu, had no trouble in Saturday’s paper distinguishing some of NJ’s wealthy and high-performing school districts from our […]
March 8, 2010
Home rule is a very big cow and it’s time it either produced a beverage or became an entrée. Next week, Christie delivers his budget […]
January 8, 2010
NJEA gave us plenty of warning that it would advise its local bargaining units to toss N.J.’s Race To The Top application (here’s the full […]
December 10, 2009
I think all schools should be funded through the state. New Jersey needs to get away from home rule. We can’t afford home rule anymore. […]
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 30, 2009
Bob Ingle explains it all: With 566 municipalities in New Jersey (California has only 480), 603 school districts (more than the states of Maryland, Delaware […]