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Latest PARCC Opt-Out Numbers in New Jersey

Some more "opt-out of PARCC" data is rolling in from local news sources:Newton High School (Sussex County) had previously reported…

10 years ago

N.J. School Boards to Christie: Don’t Slough off Pension Contributions on Local Districts

New Jersey School Boards President Larry Feinsod reacts to Gov. Christie's pension and health benefits reform plan, specifically the proposal…

10 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

PARCC Update: "With the exception of a few districts, the majority of students are participating in the computerized test, according…

10 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: Time For NJEA to Seize the Microphone on Health Benefits, Pensions

It starts here:"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop," said pragmatist Herbert Stein, and the New Jersey public…

10 years ago

QOD: Sen. Sweeney on the Prospects of the N.J. Legislature Passing PARCC “Opt-Out” Bill

Senate President Steve Sweeney said this week in an interview with NJ Spotlight that he was waiting on both bills…

10 years ago

N.J. Students Survive PARCC Tests But There’s a Troubling Trend Among Opt-Outs

Here's my new Newsworks column: This week many of New Jersey's students took PARCC tests, the new computer-based standardized assessments aligned…

10 years ago

NJEA and SOS-NJ Get a “D’ for Their Campaign Against PARCC Testing

After all the NJEA-sponsored television and radio  commercials that solicited parents to opt their children out of PARCC, after all…

10 years ago

QOD: N.J. Superintendent Says “opt-Out” Movement “Eats Away” at Public Education

James Cristfield, former superintendent of Millburn Public Schools, in yesterday's New York Times, on the politics of the opt-out-of-PARCC movement: “There…

10 years ago

True Confessions

While my husband and I were waiting for "Portlandia" to queue up on the roku last night, I happened to…

10 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

PARCC Division:C. Andre Daniels, chair of the National PTA Resource Development Committee, says it "is time for someone to say…

10 years ago