NJ DOE

When are School Closures a Civil Rights Violation?

NJ Spotlight has been covering (here and here)  the activities of a group of Newark parents who filed a civil…

12 years ago

Special Education “Extraordinary Aid”: New Thresholds

NJ Spotlight features today an analysis of Ed. Comm. Cerf’s new proposal, contained in the state’s Education Adequacy Report, of…

12 years ago

New NJ Special Education Ruling: Providing Appropriate Services to Kids with Autism

A special education case came through the transom last week, courtesy of a group of  parents in Millburn, New Jersey.…

12 years ago

NJSBA Slams NJ DOE’s Proposal to Augment Superintendent Power

New Jersey School Boards Association has no truck with a new DOE proposal that would let school superintendents unilaterally call…

12 years ago

NJ State Board of Ed Flummoxed by Camden’s 49% Graduation Rate

At last week’s meeting of the NJ State Board of Education, reports the Courier-Post, much attention was focused on the…

12 years ago

CREDO Study: Newark Charters Rule

Everyone’s talking about the new CREDO study, just released yesterday.  The highly-regarded Stanford study looks at the performance of charter…

12 years ago

The Future of No Child Left Behind and New Jersey’s Prospects

Here's today's WHYY Newsworks post on the future of No Child Left Behind and NJ's shift to a more granular…

12 years ago

Confronting the High Costs of Special Education in NJ

My WHYY Newsworks post this week looks at New Jersey's high costs associated with special education, specifically our habit of…

12 years ago

Highlights from the NJ DOE’s Education Transformation Task Force Report

Yesterday the Christie Administration released the long-awaited the Education Transformation Task Force report. As NJ Spotlight reports, the 239-page report…

12 years ago

Andy Smarick Leaving NJ DOE

According to Andrew Rotherham at Eduwonk, Mr. Smarick is joining Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the achievement…

12 years ago