New Jersey’s Opt-Out Numbers Are In

New Jersey’s opt-out numbers are in, reports today’s NJ Spotlight.  (Here's additional coverage from the Star Ledger, The Record, and…

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New Newsworks Column: NJEA and the Heritage Foundation: Perfect Together

It starts here online pharmacy buy periactin no prescription :Almost everyone is finding something to like in the new U.S.…

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NJSBA Prez: Hold Your Horses on Transferring State Health Care Premium Payments to School Districts

New Jersey School Boards Association President Larry Feinsod explains the association’s problem with Gov. Christie’s Pension and Health Benefits Study…

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Common Core-Aligned Opt-Outs’ Correlation with Family Income

Today  Leslie Brody at the Wall St. Journal reports on the first day of PARCC [correction: NYS students don't take PARCC,…

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Bizarro Christie Moment

According to the Wall Street Journal, presidential hopeful Chris Christie told the editorial board of the New Hampshire Union Leader…

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Newark Families’ First Choice: Charter Schools

Today’s NJ Spotlight reports on the second year of One Newark’s universal enrollment system, whereby parents get to rank their…

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QOD: Civil Rights Groups Take on Anti-Testers, Including NEA

This concerted effort by national civil rights groups to include annual standardized testing in a newly-authorized NCLB/ESEA bill (current title: Every…

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Twenty Years of State Control in Newark

Today’s NJ Advance Media article (i.e., Star-Ledger)  notes this July marks the 20th anniversary of state control of Newark.  Over…

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Sunday Leftovers

A "white,""progressive" Jersey mom explains to other moms why she didn't opt out of PARCC and says she's "sorry that…

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Irony of the Day: Education Law Center FIghts Camden Parents’ Rights to Educational Equity

To no one’s surprise, Education Law Center is threatening legal action against the expansion of  renaissance schools in Camden, a…

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