Education Commissioner Chris Cerf announced last year that the DOE would reorganize its local oversight from individual county offices to 7 Regional Achievement Centers (RAC’s),
Good news on NJ’s Interdistrict Public School Choice Program! According to a press release from the NJ DOE, participation next year is projected to increase
It was quite the scene at the Statehouse Annex yesterday as the Senate Education Committee heard public testimony on Sen. Teresa Ruiz’s tenure reform bill,
NJ’s School Report Cards, the state data base for student achievement based on standardized tests, is still under embargo. But here’s a few data points.
During President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, he dropped in a proposal that students should not be permitted to leave high school
Yesterday there were 38 New Jersey school boards that had voted to move their elections to November. Today, just a week after passage of the
How pissed off is Education Law Center over the proposed Urban Hope Act, the fast-tracked bill that would (in its most recent incarnation) build a
Earlier this week I commented on Dr. Bruce Baker’s description of New Jersey’s historical preference for the “extreme segregation” of poor minority kids into chronically
NJ’s Education Law Center has just released a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan requesting that NJ’s application for a waiver from the
The Courier-Post is all over Camden Public Schools’ failure to accurately report incidents of violence and vandalism. (See earlier story here.) Each year, per state