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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…

10 years ago

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,…

10 years ago

Bizarro Christie Moment

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

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

Parents Across America and Fairtest Fight ESEA/NCLB Commitment to Annual Standardized Tests

Today is Parents Across America and Fairtest’s “National Day of Action,” which is devoted to lobbying U.S. senators to eliminate…

10 years ago

Opting Out of PARCC: “Everyone is Talking About it at Whole Foods”

Andy Rotherham has a great piece up at US News on the opt-out “movement.” Clear-headed as always, he  notes that…

10 years ago

Mila Jasey’s Charter Conversion

Speaking of the bill proposed by N.J. Assembly members Patrick Diegnan and Mila Jasey that would place a three-year moratorium…

10 years ago

Diegnan/Jasey Charter Moratorium Bill Will Hurt Thousands of Needy Students

Score another one for Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan: not only does he want to undermine the state’s ability to gauge academic…

10 years ago

QOD: How much does N.J. spend per child per year?

From today's NJ Spotlight column:Statewide, New Jersey’s public schools are creeping ever closer to the $20,000 mark, with an average…

10 years ago