March 3, 2009
The Abbott districts are not the only group fighting against the State’s School Funding Reform Act, which would replace special funding to 31 pre-designated poor […]
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February 27, 2009
CentralJersey reports that teachers in Montgomery Township are lobbying the local school board to bring in a budget at the 4% allowed by cap. Why? […]
February 25, 2009
Star-Ledger columnist Bob Braun updates us on the State Funding Reform Act hearings, which should finish up this week. Justice Peter Doyne gets to decide […]
February 24, 2009
What happens when a school gets flagged enough times by the NCLB watchdogs to merit the dreaded sanction “Implement Restructuring Plan?” It’s happening in Willingboro […]
February 22, 2009
NJSBA Gets Gob-Smacked: Princeton School Board member Joshua Leinsdorf blasts NJSBA as a money-gobbling lobbying group that stymies minority involvement. He writes in the Trenton […]
February 12, 2009
The Star-Ledger reports on a bill making its way through the Assembly that would force N.J.’s dozen “doughnut” municipalities to merge. Doughnuts are small towns […]
February 6, 2009
As local school districts confront the DOE’s efficiency formulas which dictate how much we should be spending on everything from transportation to informational pamphlets, look […]
February 2, 2009
George Amick of the Trenton Times has a good piece today depicting the playground politics underway between Assemblyman Reed Gusciora of Princeton Borough and the […]
January 7, 2009
The Trenton Times has published an op-ed by the Vice President of the Trenton School Board, Alexander Brown. It’s both a primer on the history […]
January 3, 2009
We don’t want Princeton to be just adequate — we don’t want to revert to a mean that incorporates everyone in the state. We want […]
December 30, 2008
Here’s a must-read from Matt Miller, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, published in the New York Times this week. Money quote: […]
December 18, 2008
There’s a great piece in the New York Times today by Peter Applebome that profiles a seventy-year-old retired T.V. journalist who haunts school board meetings […]