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We Raise New Jersey Announces New Coalition Members

We Raise New Jersey, an organization committed to help parents raise student achievement (and counter some of the distortions promulgated…

10 years ago

QOD: N.J. School Boards Opposes Assembly’s Anti-PARCC Bill

From NJSBA's Legislative Update, which cites the Association's testimony against A-4190 because the bill could "jeopardize federal funding," "frustrat[e]" tenure…

10 years ago

NJEA Staff Salaries Highest in the Nation

While we're on the topic of labor union benefits, Mike Antonucci at EIA is “in possession of” staff salary figures…

10 years ago

Christie Celebrates “Historic Agreement” with NJEA; NJEA says “Not”

Gov. Christie gave his budget address yesterday afternoon and the big news was what he described as a “historic agreement”…

10 years ago

Hope Springs Eternal,

at least regarding the N.J. Senate's ability to resist union-pandering and stand strong on the state's efforts to improve instruction…

10 years ago

Just How “Grassroots” is the Opt-Out Movement in New Jersey?

Judging by NJEA and Save Our Schools-NJ websites and lobbying efforts, New Jersey parents are opting-out their children from PARCC…

10 years ago

“First Vaccinations, Now it’s the PARCC Test”

The Press of Atlantic City, hardly a reform-minded publication, comments on  New Jersey’s overblown “anxiety attacks” regarding PARCC assessments, a…

10 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

New Jersey students survived the first day of PARCC testing!  Here's a Bayonne ninth-grader: "It was really easy, actually," [Kion]…

10 years ago

One of N.J.’s Top Superintendents Explains What’s Wrong with the Opt-Out Movement

James A. Crisfield, superintendent of one of New Jersey’s highest-performing districts, Millburn Public Schools, has an editorial today in NJ…

10 years ago

QOD: A Public School Mom on the Anti-Test Movement’s Hostility Towards Data

Lynnell Mickelson, a "long-time progressive Democrat," at Education Post:Can we be clear? When the sole responsibility for test outcomes was…

10 years ago