March 11, 2013
Today’s NJ Spotlight profiles the NJ DOE’s annual list of the state’s highest-performing “Reward” schools. According to our waiver for No Child Left Behind, every […]
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March 10, 2013
The Star-Ledger reports that “[t]he New Jersey Education Association’s spending on lobbying dropped 96 percent, from $11.3 million to $409,000 — accounting for more than […]
March 8, 2013
Education Law Center has issued a press release condemning Gov.Christie’s proposed state school aid budget as “paltry,” “not keeping pace with inflation,” “legally improper,” “arbitrary,” […]
March 8, 2013
Politics K12 reports on Diane Ravitch’s new anti-reform organization, The Network for Public Education: Education historian Diane Ravitch, a fierce critic of current education reform […]
March 7, 2013
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at the reaction of various interest groups — school boards, teachers’ union, principals and supervisors, superintendents — to […]
March 6, 2013
The honeymoon’s over. After years of attacking Gov. Christie and his education agenda full throttle – and losing authority, gravitas, and public support – NJEA’s […]
March 6, 2013
This just in from New Jersey School Boards Association: Senate Bill 1191, which would restrict school districts’ abilities to outsource certain services, is through committee […]
March 5, 2013
The Hunterdon County Democrat Editorial Board weighs in on teacher discomfort with NJ’s new teacher evaluation legislation because of discomfort with the fairness of both […]
March 3, 2013
The Star Ledger, NJ Spotlight, Asbury Park Press, the Courier Post, Central Jersey, and the Record have breakdowns of each school district’s state aid for […]
March 1, 2013
From yesterday’s NJ Spotlight article on NJ’s progress towards updating our charter school laws: “This is exciting,” said Carlos Perez, executive director of the New […]
March 1, 2013
The Star-Ledger thinks it’s unveiled a conspiracy among retired NJ school superintendents. In “an investigation by the New Jersey Watchdog,” the paper reports that these […]
February 28, 2013
My column today at WHYY’s Newsworks examines four pending education bills before the NJ State Legislature: During this first 2013 session of the New Jersey […]