Newark Superintendent Is Advising School Board Members to Lie to the State
Just when you think Newark Public Schools District can’t get any more dysfunctional, another perversion pops up. Example: today Chalkbeat reports that during October’s board
2022 Mid-Terms: Winners Listened to 81% of Parents Who Support School Choice
This is a press release from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Education played a significant role in the 2022 election cycle in America—and
Top New Jersey Officials Demand More Honesty and Less Vomit From Murphy’s Education Department As Student Proficiency Plummets
When someone stands up and says New Jersey schools are #1 I have an immediate reaction to vomit because I know that’s not true. That’s
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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 to shift pension premium payments
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PARCC Update: “With the exception of a few districts, the majority of students are participating in the computerized test, according to early reports from schools.”
New NJ Spotlight Column: Time For NJEA to Seize the Microphone on Health Benefits, Pensions
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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 until the Senate education committee
N.J. Students Survive PARCC Tests But There’s a Troubling Trend Among Opt-Outs
Here’s my new Newsworks column: online pharmacy reglan for sale with best prices today in the USA This week many of New Jersey’s students took
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 of Save Our Schools-NJ’ online
QOD: N.J. Superintendent Says “opt-Out” Movement “Eats Away” at Public Education
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Camden Education Association and Camden City Schools Reach Accord on Contract
From the press release: February 2, 2015 – Camden, NJ – The Camden Education Association, which represents approximately 1,500 teachers and school support employees, reached
True Confessions
While my husband and I were waiting for “Portlandia” to queue up on the roku last night, I happened to click on a link from
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PARCC Division:C. Andre Daniels, chair of the National PTA Resource Development Committee, says it “is time for someone to say publicly and sincerely, ‘Shame on
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 by anti-testing lobbyists) just announced
Parent Empowerment Drives Camden Education Reform
(Note: a modified version of this post appears at WHYY Newsworks.) On Tuesday evening, just before the start of the Camden City Public Schools board
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 reform efforts, and “eliminate a
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 from NEA affiliates, which are
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” with NJEA intended to alleviate
Big Happenings in Camden This Evening
According to a press release from Mastery Schools of Camden, this evening at 5:15, just prior to the city School Board meeting, over 50 families
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 and assessment. From today’s NJ
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 tests in droves. Here’s NJEA
“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 timely topic given that today
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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
