July 6, 2012
From today’s New York Times on the “whittling down” of No Child Left Behind through waivers granted to (at last count) 26 states: While No […]
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July 5, 2012
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at a a potential casualty of the Legislature’s budget debate: NJ’s Regional Achievement Centers, a centerpiece of the […]
July 5, 2012
Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson has overruled the district Advisory Board and now some of the city’s most successful charter schools will be able to lease […]
July 3, 2012
Back in January, the Council on Unfunded Mandates ruled that NJ’s highly-touted Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying legislation – which compelled all districts to implement multi-leveled […]
July 2, 2012
One dispute over tying teacher evaluations to data on student growth has been the charge that teachers who are effective with wealthy students would see […]
July 1, 2012
The Record Editorial Board discusses NJ’s “remarkable compromise in forging an overhaul of tenure laws to make it easier for public schools to oust ineffective […]
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 […]
June 28, 2012
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks: New Jersey’s tenure reform bill is now approved by the State Legislature and should be graced by Gov. Christie’s […]
June 27, 2012
NJ Spotlight, the Star-Ledger, and PolitickerNJ are all reporting that Gov. Christie is injecting a bit of political theater into the presumed signing of the […]
June 27, 2012
Tom Moran has a theory (see today’s Star-Ledger) regarding Sen. Teresa Ruiz’s ability to conduct an open, inclusive process in order to achieve consensus on […]
June 26, 2012
The New Jersey School Boards Association candidly addresses some weaknesses of the tenure reform bill just approved by the State Assembly: The tenure legislation approved […]
June 26, 2012
In a press release issued yesterday after the NJ Assembly unanimously approved Sen. Ruiz’s tenure reform bill, NJEA gloats, NJEA President Barbara Keshishian applauded the […]