March 11, 2016
Last night was the first Newark School Board candidate forum at St. James AME Church. I wasn’t able to make it there and haven’t seen […]
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November 3, 2015
Groucho Marx aside, here’s some numbers via the Star-Ledger on school board elections today. Don’t forget to vote! 1,861 candidates are seeking positions on New […]
August 27, 2015
New Jersey School Boards Association just issued a report on the status of teacher contract negotiations in the state’s 579 school districts. Of the 211 […]
June 4, 2015
“We got approval twice already. They are not likely to prevail,” she said. “We hope that the Hoboken Board of Education finally stops trying to […]
January 6, 2015
Mark Weber, aka Jersey Jazzman, just published a lengthy series of posts about charter schools in Hoboken, with a particular focus on Elysian Charter School, […]
January 5, 2015
There are many arguments against the way we back-load teacher compensation, i.e., awarding small annual salary increases to newer teachers while granting comparatively large salary […]
September 4, 2014
It starts here: As children and district staff head back to school this week, policy-makers and educators continue to wrangle over a host of educational, […]
August 29, 2014
From EdWeek: “School boards have more equitable representation of men and women than any other governing group in the United States, but new studies suggest […]
August 26, 2014
Late Sunday night yet another Trenton Board of Education member resigned, leaving only four members of the nine-member, mayor-appointed group, one less than a quorum […]
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 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 […]
May 29, 2014
It starts here: Last week Assemblyman Troy Singleton (D-Camden) released a bill that updates New Jersey’s 20-year-old charter school law. The draft of the bill […]