October 24, 2013
it’s your sparsely-posting blogger. Sorry for that. Blame it on the annual New Jersey School Boards Workshop at the A.C. Convention Center. Things are winding […]
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October 21, 2013
This morning’s NJ Spotlight counts the cash raised and spent by New Jersey Education Association, especially its new PAC, Garden State Forward,which has already spent […]
October 21, 2013
A few weeks ago Lakewood Public Schools announced that it had a $4 million hole in its budget, primarily due to the costs of busing […]
October 20, 2013
A few well-informed readers add that the NJ DOE repeatedly missed deadlines to inform aspiring choice schools of approvals and that the student application process […]
October 20, 2013
New Jersey’s Interdistrict PublicSchool Choice program is hugely popular with both parents and school districts. A 2010 state law expanded a pilot program to allow […]
October 20, 2013
Dueling PACS: “Garden State Forward, the PAC operated by the state’s largest teachers union, is up with a new ad touting Democratic gubernatorial nominee Barbara […]
October 18, 2013
NJ Spotlight considers the dearth of action at both the State Department and Board of Education as election day approaches: The state Board of Education’s […]
October 18, 2013
My column at WHYY Newsworks today looks at the educational content of Tuesday night’s Christie/Buono gubernatorial debate, particularly Buono’s honest acknowledgement of the barriers to […]
October 17, 2013
In today’s New York Times David Leonhardt examines a new study from the D.C. school system on its teacher evaluation program called Impact, which was […]
October 17, 2013
Now that Cory Booker has been declared the winner of the U.S. Senate seat, it’s time to start campaigning for next year when the full […]
October 16, 2013
Last night after the Christie/Buono gubernatorial debate, NJ Spotlight sponsored a virtual panel discussion to gauge reactions and analyze issues. Participants were Carl Golden, senior […]
October 15, 2013
Last week a report was issued by the Institute of Law and Policy at Rutgers-Newark and the Civil Rights Project at University of California, Los […]