March 6, 2014
Chris Cerf’s parting shot, addressed to NJ school leaders, addresses NJEA’s increasingly assertive campaign against new standardized testing, teaching evaluations, and, protestations aside, the Common […]
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March 6, 2014
Here’s the beginning: “All is flux, nothing stays still,” said Plato, but you’d never know that in Camden. It’s still the worst school system in […]
February 27, 2014
On Tuesday a gloomy Chris Christie donned a hair shirt instead of a fleece jacket and proffered his 2015 fiscal-year budget sermon to Statehouse legislators. […]
February 26, 2014
Newark Update: After a vote of “no confidence,” hostile meetings, and personal attacks (or at least a reference to her children), Superintendent Cami Anderson is […]
February 18, 2014
Hot off the press, today’s column at NJ Spotlight: Someone ought to give Chris Cerf a flak suit as he parachutes out of Gov. Chris […]
January 15, 2014
How much airtime did Gov. Christie devote to education in his State of the State speech yesterday afternoon? The whole megillah was 4,213 words. (Here’s […]
January 14, 2014
NJEA just issued a press release that responds to Gov. Christie’s anticipated call during his speech this afternoon for longer school days and years. NJEA […]
December 15, 2013
today’s Asbury Park Press editorial debate on the virtues (or not) of NJ’s public school choice program that allows students to cross district boundaries upon […]
December 9, 2013
In an hour Newark will begin its “National Day of Action to Reclaim Promise of Public Education” when a coterie of teacher union supporters gather […]
November 8, 2013
I would be remiss to not point out that New Jersey public schools are closed today, as they were yesterday, for the annual NJEA Convention. […]
November 5, 2013
The New York Times’ lead article today is titled, “Big Money Flows in New Jersey Races to Thwart Christie Agenda.” That “big money” comes from […]
November 1, 2013
The Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) just issued a report on special interest group spending for the Christie/Buono contest and the heavyweight is NJEA. Here’s […]