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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Deja Vu for Michael Winerip
Michael Winerip, the New York Times education writer, strikes another blow for Luddites everywhere with today’s article on the use of “an automated reader developed
Sunday Leftovers
Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson has been selected as one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People.” In other Newark school news, the Star-Ledger examines the
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David Brooks, in today’s New York Times, discusses the need for value-added evaluations of colleges, given that ” that nearly half the students showed no
Lakewood Update
On Tuesday online pharmacy buy topamax online cheap pharmacy I looked at the peculiar antics at Lakewood Public Schools, where the Board shifted to November
NJ School Board Elections: What Changed So Fast?
My piece today at WHYY Newsworks looks at the factors that led to a dramatic turnaround for a long-sought piece of legislation. Check it out!
School Elections Today: Life in Lakewood
For seventy-three (lonely) New Jersey school districts, today is election day. In early February the State Legislature passed a bill allowing school boards to bypass
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NJ DOE Advertises RAC Positions
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),
Louisiana Gets It Done
Today’s Wall St. Journal lauds Louisiana’s new school choice laws, which: online pharmacy https://ampsychfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/vibramycin.html no prescription 1) Give each low-income parent a voucher worth an
Sunday Leftovers
The big education news in NJ this week was the DOE’s release of the final list of low-performing “priority schools” that, due to the Feds’
Christie on LIFO and Referenda on Charter Schools
From a Q & A with Tom Moran of the Star-Ledger: Q. On the tenure reform bill, the Democrats are talking about making an exception
Just How Much Is NJ Willing To Pay for Local Control?
My post this week at Newsworks WHYY online pharmacy paxil with best prices today in the USA is called “When Looking at School Consolidation, Let’s
Scandal of the Day
This comes courtesy of the Perth Amboy Public Schools (Middlesex County), an Abbott district with about 10,000 kids and an operating budget of about $157
When is a Compromise Become a Cop-Out? (Think LIFO)
Yesterday’s Star-Ledger editorial defined the essential problem with back-room negotiations regarding Sen. Teresa Ruiz’s tenure reform bill: while the earlier versions eliminated tenure protection for
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In today’s Star-Ledger, online pharmacy buy lasix no prescription the Editorial Board considers the rift between New Jersey Republicans and Democrats on education reform —
New Members of NJ’s Education Funding Task Force
From the press release: The New Jersey Education Funding Task Force will be chaired by Secretary of Higher Education Rochelle Hendricks (Fair Haven, Monmouth), who
The Pedagogy of Poverty: Alfie Kohn v. Mike Petrelli
In a recent issue of Wisconsin Interest that also appears (in abridged form) in Fordham’s Flypaper blog, Mike Petrelli considers the educational politics of Alfie
Consolidation of School Districts?
Today’s Trentonian online pharmacy buy arava online no prescription pharmacy posits a thought experiment on the consolidation of municipalities in Mercer County. The new map
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Gov. Chris Christie discusses an NJEA policy that requires members that opt out of the union to still pay over 80% of the annual fee:
$1K/Hour for Curriculum Writing?
The Star-Ledger reports today that Shirley Miles has been working as a “professional developer” for curriculum writing for the Paterson Public Schools. Her fee, the
