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The state deadline for filing for school board candidacy is Monday. Here's the lowdown from New Jersey School Boards Association.…

9 years ago

Does the New NCLB’s Opt-Out Provisions Protect Kids with Disabilities? This Mom says “No”

Great read in The Atlantic about the alignment of disability advocates and civil rights leaders on the necessity of maintaining federal oversight,…

9 years ago

QOD: N.J.’s Pension Fix Requires Both Benefits Cuts and Tax Increases

The Star-Ledger Editorial Board does the math in the context of the "dangerous partisan stalemate" regarding strategies to resuscitate N.J.'s…

9 years ago

Welcome to N.J.’s New School Funding blog, “New Jersey Education Aid”

Here’s an official welcome to the new education blog in town, "New Jersey Education Aid."The author, who goes by the…

9 years ago

Do Charter Schools “Counsel Out” Students with Disabilities?

Charter schools are often criticized for under-enrolling students with disabilities.  For example, a report last October from Mark Weber (Jersey…

9 years ago

QOD: Sen. Rice Goes Off the Rails and Makes Stuff Up about Charter Schools

PolitickerNJ describes Senator Ronald Rice's (D-Newark) temper tantrum at the Statehouse during a presentation by the State Department of Education…

9 years ago

A New ESEA without Civil Rights Groups’ Support? Soulless and Spineless.

Lauren Camera  of PoliticsK-12 describes the state of play on the Every Child Achieves Act as the House and Senate…

9 years ago

Why the “Every Child Achieves Act” Needs a Little More Tweaking

Marianne Lombardo at Education Reform Now looks at the recent report on NAEP scores from the National Center for Education…

9 years ago

How Do Teachers Feel About Being Forced to Pay Dues to Unions?

From today's Wall St. Journal:We asked a representative sample of 3,300 members of the general public and approximately 700 teachers…

9 years ago

QOD: Sen. Cory Booker on Accountability Provision in ESEA

I'm distressed today that this body will put into place a piece of educational legislation that ignores those children who…

9 years ago