We Raise New Jersey, an organization committed to help parents raise student achievement (and counter some of the distortions promulgated by anti-testing lobbyists) just announced
From NJSBA’s Legislative Update, which cites the Association’s testimony against A-4190 because the bill could “jeopardize federal funding,” “frustrat[e]” tenure reform efforts, and “eliminate a
While we’re on the topic of labor union benefits, Mike Antonucci at EIA is “in possession of” staff salary figures from NEA affiliates, which are
Gov. Christie gave his budget address yesterday afternoon and the big news was what he described as a “historic agreement” with NJEA intended to alleviate
at least regarding the N.J. Senate’s ability to resist union-pandering and stand strong on the state’s efforts to improve instruction and assessment. From today’s NJ
Judging by NJEA and Save Our Schools-NJ websites and lobbying efforts, New Jersey parents are opting-out their children from PARCC tests in droves. Here’s NJEA
The Press of Atlantic City, hardly a reform-minded publication, comments on New Jersey’s overblown “anxiety attacks” regarding PARCC assessments, a timely topic given that today
New Jersey students survived the first day of PARCC testing! Here’s a Bayonne ninth-grader: “It was really easy, actually,” [Kion] Namjou said. “It was really
James A. Crisfield, superintendent of one of New Jersey’s highest-performing districts, Millburn Public Schools, has an editorial today in NJ Spotlight that makes a reasonable and
Lynnell Mickelson, a “long-time progressive Democrat,” at Education Post: Can we be clear? When the sole responsibility for test outcomes was on the children, there