January 20, 2011
A new report out from the Center for American Progress calculates the return on investment (ROI) for most districts within each state based on the […]
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January 11, 2011
There’s a bit of a contretemps boomeranging around cyberspace between Mike Petrelli of the Fordham Institute and Flypaper and Bruce Baker of Rutgers and SchoolFinance101. […]
January 6, 2011
There’s two big education stories circling today: the NJ Supreme Court’s hearing on whether Gov. Christie’s school aid cuts violated the Constitution, and the most […]
November 23, 2010
Everyone’s talking about superintendent salary caps. The Record reports that the New Jersey Association of School Administrators filed a motion in State Superior Court claiming […]
November 9, 2010
Bob Braun’s Star-Ledger column – “N.J. Activists, Parents Warn Against Promoting Charter Schools as Fix for Education System” is a bit of a cipher. Public […]
October 13, 2010
Check out the new report, “Is School Funding Fair? A National Report Card.” Authors are Bruce Baker from Rutgers, David Sciarra, Executive Director of Education […]
July 23, 2010
As Gov. Christie and the State Legislature try to pull back the reins (2% tax increase cap, superintendent salary caps, pending toolkit) on school spending, […]
June 14, 2010
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Jack Kelly examines total compensation packages of public employees (teachers specifically) and private sector employees, reciting statistics that show that the former do […]
May 12, 2010
Seems like everyone’s still digesting Gov. Christie’s scroll of fiscal reforms handed over to the Legislature over the past week. The centerpiece, of course, is […]
April 23, 2010
Education Commissioner Brett Schundler has an idea: in the 58% of NJ school districts where budgets failed to gain voter approval, bring local teacher unions […]
April 16, 2010
From a Q and A with Education Commissioner Bret Schundler at a Senate Hearing, courtesy of New Jersey Newsroom: The thing holding up action [on […]
April 6, 2010
According to New Jersey Newsroom, the Christie Administration wants to encourage school districts to merge or at least agree to have one set of administrators […]