Why Is NJ’s Teachers’ Union Sitting out The Senate Race?

Answer? Read my new column at WHYY's Newsworks:With less than four weeks until New Jersey's primary election for U.S. Senate,…

13 years ago

QOD: How Ed Reform is a “Test” for Republicans

Chester E. Finn Jr. and Mike Petrelli, president and executive vice president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute, explain…

13 years ago

New WHYY Post: In World of Education, What Does it Men to Be a NJ Democrat?

New Jersey's political races for U.S. Senate and Governor have dominated local media, despite the lack of meaningful competition for…

13 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

Tom Moran in today’s Star-Ledger has lots of praise  for gubernatorial candidate Sen. Barbara Buono’s platform.  But not so much…

13 years ago

NJ’s Private Special Education Schools: Auditor Finds “Exorbitant Salaries” to Top Administrators

Speaking of administrative salaries, NJ Spotlight reports today that the NJ State Auditor has released a report that says “at…

13 years ago

NJ (Probably) Loses Another Superintendent to the Salary Cap

Brian Osbourne, one of NJ’s finest superintendents, is a finalist for Superintendent of Ann Arbor Schools.  Currently at the helm…

13 years ago

Education Law Center’s Beef with Magnet Schools

NJ’s Education Law Center is celebrating an agreement between Cape May County Technical Board of Education and the NJ Division…

13 years ago

QOD: NJ Black Ministers’ Leader Explains His Christie Endorsement

Bishop Reginald Jackson explains why he is endorsing Chris Christie for governor  instead of Senator Barbara Buono:“Why Chris Christie over…

13 years ago

Is NJ’s New Teacher Tenure Law Working?

Could be. The Trentonian reports on a state arbiter's ruling that a Paterson elementary school teacher should lose his tenure…

13 years ago

NJ Charter School Wars: Diegnan Makes the Case for a Community Referendum

Today’s Star-Ledger includes an editorial by Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan, who lays out the case for his proposed charter school law.…

13 years ago