May 8, 2012
John Mooney has an important piece today in NJ Spotlight on the decision by Ed. Comm. Cerf and the DOE to wean NJ public high […]
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May 8, 2012
Today’s Courier-Post reports on a 2007 incident in Camden Public Schools where a tenured teacher named Errol Goodwater struck a special education student on the […]
May 7, 2012
The latest issue of NJ School Boards Association print mag, School Leader, reviews average teacher union settlement rates for the 2011-2012 school year. As last […]
May 6, 2012
The Christie Administration is proposing new regulations for the Interdistrict Public Choice Program, reports NJ Spotlight, which would allow more than one district per county […]
May 4, 2012
Bob Braun at the Star-Ledger had a column yesterday that slammed the Christie Administration’s “dubious educational policy decisions made behind closed doors.” Those decisions include […]
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 […]
May 3, 2012
Today’s story on Lakewood Public Schools in the Asbury Park Press concerns a blind and deaf minority student with serious developmental delays named Sha’Quan Peace-Doldren. […]
May 3, 2012
That’s the topic for my post today at Newsworks WHYY. Teaser: These changes are serendipitous for those of the education reform persuasion, and dovetail smoothly […]
May 2, 2012
NJ School Boards Association has a cogent explanation of the new way NJ is calculating graduation rates: Previously, the graduation rate for a given year […]
May 2, 2012
The Asbury Park Press’s 11-page expose on Lakewood Public Schools, “Cheated,” is (finally!) online. For those playing catch-up, Lakewood is an unusual district: while 5,600 […]
May 1, 2012
The Christie Administration has just released graduation rates for each NJ high school. These numbers are calculated differently than in the past, based on a […]
May 1, 2012
From today’s NJ Spotlight on the NJ DOE’s plan to raise standards for attainment of a high school diploma: Christie and Cerf yesterday presented a […]