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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NJ’s Diploma Scam: Part I
Last Tuesday the Education Law Center (ELC) sent a letter to Commissioner Bret Schundler requesting that he “set aside the results of last January’s Alternate
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Since 2001, spending by local towns across New Jersey has risen by 70 percent, with average 4 percent raises for teachers each year playing a
Sunday Leftovers
The Monmouth University Poll says that 1/3 of registered voters think that teachers are suffering unfairly under Gov. Christie’s proposed budget, but a new Rasmussen
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From a Q and A with Education Commissioner Bret Schundler at a Senate Hearing, courtesy of New Jersey Newsroom: The thing holding up action [on
Seniority and Teacher Effectiveness
NJEA’s latest press release decries the “catastrophic impact on public education” in NJ if the Legislature passes a bill that will give retirement incentives to
ELC and RTTT
David Sciarra, Executive Director of the Education Law Center, has an editorial at New Jersey Newsroom in which he attacks the “voucher bill,” or The
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Apologists for our educational failure say that we will never fix education in America until we eradicate poverty. They have it exactly backward: We will
Long a Rumor, Now Reality?
New bills that provides retirement incentives to NJ’s older (i.e., more expensive) teachers are now slated to go before the Legislature by June 30th. New
Chris Christie Takes on Morning Joe
The Governor went on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough and suggested that NJEA should take a bye on teachers’ dues this year so that
Department of CYA
Apparently Gov. Christie didn’t really mean on Monday that NJ residents should vote down local school budgets. At a Senate budget hearing yesterday, Ed. Comm.
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If NJ Was In Indiana…
Interesting development in Indiana regarding Race To The Top: the State Superintendent, Tony Bennett, has written a letter to the president of the Indiana State
Christie’s Strategic Blunder
Prayers for an early death aside, Gov. Christie made an strategic blunder yesterday when he called on the public to vote down school budgets in
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I’m not sure which is more embarrassing for the NJEA, the fact that their local is circulating memos praying for the governor’s death, or the
Judge Wallace and School Funding
Here in Jersey all jural eyes are on the looming question of whether Gov. Christie will grant tenure to Justice John E. Wallace Jr., whose
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Here’s an excerpt from a memo sent to local affiliates from the Bergen County office of the NJEA (which included the “prayer” in which, according
Sunday Leftovers
Steven Malanga of the City Journal explains in the New York Post how NJ’s public-school enrollment has risen since 2001 by 3% but total school
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So if it’s a war teachers want, they’ve got it. There is no clearer signal in this struggle than the tone-deafness of the most powerful
NJEA Prayer Goes Viral
From Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Oakland, CA, to San Francisco, to Kansas City, to 1010 WINS in NYC, everyone’s chattering about the prayer included in
NJ NAEP Reading Scores Flat
The National Center for Educational Progress (NAEP) has released 2009 reading scores for 4th and 8th graders online pharmacy buy imuran without prescription with best
