Here’s your cognitive dissonance for the week:

Steve Fulop, mayor of Jersey City and gubernatorial hopeful, endorsed Ras Baraka for mayor of Newark back in February but,…

13 years ago

New Report Analyzes National and NJ-specific Achievement Gaps

The Annie E. Casey Foundation just  released a new report called “Race for Results,” which intends to  "bring a fresh…

13 years ago

QOD: On “Union Claim” that Charter Schools “Counsel Out” Special Needs Kids

A teacher from Eva Moscowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools writes that anti-charter skepticism of student achievement reflects prejudice, and also…

13 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

“Several hundred Newark parents, teachers, students and community activists rallied in Trenton today to demand the return of local control…

13 years ago

Autism Rates in New Jersey: “It’s a Pandemic…There’s Cause for Alarm”

That’s Rep. Chris Smith's  (R-4th) overwrought reaction to new data from the Centers for Disease Control that shows one out…

13 years ago

New School Funding Proposal

Mayor Dave Fried of Robbinsville (Mercer County) has nothing good to say about NJ’s system of dividing up state aid…

13 years ago

New WHYY Post: NJ’s Special Education Segregation Habit

At Newsworks:  Last month a federal court ruled that New Jersey's public school system unlawfully segregates children with disabilities in…

13 years ago

Does School Board Leadership Matter?

Fordham Foundation says "yes." Here's online pharmacy buy cipro no prescription the new study and here are the "takeaways:"•    Board…

13 years ago

NJ DOE Double-Dippers Amidst NJ’s Pension Woes

Speaking of salaries, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports on an investigation from New Jersey Watchdog that found that an obscure unit…

13 years ago

New Bill Would Eliminate NJ Superintendent Salary Caps

Here’s big news for school boards and superintendents: Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan  (D-Middlesex) has filed a bill that would bar the…

13 years ago