January 16, 2014
That’s Sen. Ray Lesniak’s gloomy prognosis for the Opportunity Scholarship Act, or the “voucher bill,” a longtime goal for Gov. Christie and a bipartisan group […]
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August 8, 2013
Check out my new column at WHYY’s Newsworks: Politico, the widely-read political journalism site, poses this question: “Do any of Cory Booker’s Democratic opponents lay […]
July 30, 2013
Check out my new column at NJ Spotlight, which reconsiders the presumption that a Christie victory against Barbara Buono would provide no lift to fellow […]
March 27, 2013
Read my column today at NJ Spotlight which considers NJ’s hotly-contested Opportunity Scholarship Act, or “the voucher bill.” In 1994, Gov. Christie Whitman announced a […]
March 22, 2013
My post this week at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at the politics of NJ’s embattled school voucher bill, which has evolved from a sprawling overreach to […]
February 27, 2013
Here’s the bottom line: Gov. Christie’s proposed state budget is $32.9 billion and includes expanding Medicaid, Hurricane Sandy relief, signing on to Pres. Obama’s Affordable […]
February 1, 2013
Alicia Grimaldi Brzycki, an advocate for children with disabilities, argues for school choice and the Opportunity Scholarship Act: If, as a nation, we choose our […]
October 18, 2012
That’s the subject of my post today at WHYY’s Newsworks. This past Monday, parents of three young Camden City Public Schools students filed a class […]
September 6, 2012
Yesterday the Christie Administration released the long-awaited the Education Transformation Task Force report. As NJ Spotlight reports, the 239-page report “was a gargantuan effort, with […]
June 28, 2012
NJ Spotlight reports this morning that the Opportunity Scholarship Act “is likely dead for the rest of the year.” “[Assembly Speaker] Sheila [Oliver] will not […]
May 10, 2012
My column today at Newsworks WHYY asks why Gov. Christie, after a relatively peaceful interlude with NJEA top brass, has gone pugilistic again: To those […]
May 4, 2012
Today’s NJ Spotlight reviews Gov. Christie’s comments on OSA and tenure reform (among other things) at American Federation for Children’s “School Choice Summit” in Jersey […]