Placing Odds on RTTT
Laura Waters
March 1, 2010
Edweek’s PoliticsK-12 is betting that Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Tennessee will be winners in this first round of the Race To The Top competition.
Conflicting Roles for NJEA’s Giordano
Laura Waters
March 1, 2010
Vince Giordano, NJEA’s Executive Director, makes no bones about his organization’s key positions: maintain 4%-5% annual salary increases for teachers, stymie attempts to mandate contributions
Warring FaceBook Pages!
Laura Waters
March 1, 2010
First erupted “New Jersey Teachers United Against Gov. Christie’s Pay Freeze.” (See our post here.) Now the people answer back with a new Facebook page:
Ledger: Freeze Teacher Salaries
Laura Waters
March 1, 2010
The Star-Ledger Editorial Board declares that NJ’s “collective bargaining system is broken” (referring to the sound and fury expelled during negotiations in Marlboro [see here