December 16, 2014
The Trenton Times reports today that district administrators are trying to bring back more students with disabilities into district schools. At a school board meeting, […]
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December 12, 2014
Yesterday afternoon the N.J. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Acting Education Commissioner David Hespe as Chris Cerf’s permanent replacement. Media coverage focused on some “tough […]
December 12, 2014
Ross Danis, president and CEO of the Newark Trust for Education, considers the high odds against academic success for New Jersey students confined within the state’s […]
May 6, 2014
NJ Education Commissioner David Hespe told the state Assembly Budget Committee that he “doesn’t know” if Gov. Christie will cut education funding to trim the […]
May 2, 2014
Today’s WHYY Newsworks column: New Jersey’s mayoral elections are in two weeks and the eyes of the education community are focused on Newark’s contentious race […]
May 1, 2014
Both NJ Spotlight and the Star Ledger cover the discrepancies between Gov. Christie’s actual school district state aid, per his budget, and state aid calculated […]
April 29, 2014
Yesterday NJ Spotlight reported on the sorry fiscal condition of Lakewood Public Schools (Ocean County). On Friday Commissioner David Hespe announced that the State would […]
April 28, 2014
I covered Saturday’s mayoral forum for WHYY Newsworks: At the mayoral forum Saturday morning “Setting Trenton’s Education Agenda,” sponsored by the Citizens Campaign at the […]
April 17, 2014
It’s been a bad week for NJ’s Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, a highly-acclaimed program that allows students to attend schools outside district boundaries. Schools […]
April 4, 2014
Ryan Hill, founder of TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, responds to yesterday’s student protest against Cami Anderson’s One Newark plan: “There is a degree to […]
April 3, 2014
Camden Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard announced last night that the district would lay off 400 staff members in order to close a $75 million budget shortfall. […]
March 25, 2014
Speaking of salaries, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports on an investigation from New Jersey Watchdog that found that an obscure unit of the NJ Department of […]