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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Gov. Christie is a very shrewd politician, and he’s using crafty political tactics to impose his agenda on the state. But when he turned his
We may not have made the first cut for Race To The Top,
but yesterday Comm. Bret Schundler announced that the US DOE has given us $66.7 million to turn around some of our schools on the bottom.
Trenton Central High Gets Wacked By New S.R.A.
The Trenton Times looks at the impact of the DOE’s decision to amend the rules surrounding the Special Review Assessment, the test given to high
Don’t Cry For Me, New Jersey
Ex-Governor Jon Corzine may have left us but his annual salary at MF Global Holdings, a futures and options broker, is $1.5 million a year
A Brave Public School Teacher Speaks Up
New Jersey Newsroom online pharmacy purchase amaryl no prescription with best prices today in the USA has reprinted NJEA President Keshishian’s editorial on how Gov.
It’s Race To the Top Day
Today the US DOE will announce winners of the federal competition in education reform. Andy Smarick at Flypaper is placing odds if you’re a betting
Sunday Leftovers
“The bottom line, the battle between the NJEA and the governor will utlimately be decided by the public — for lawmakers will ultimately side with
Schundler on NJ’s Prospects for RTTT $
Ed Sec Schundler in an opinion piece in today’s Asbury Park Press: online pharmacy amaryl with best prices today in the USA New Jersey will
NJEA/Christie Head-Butting Match
It’s like a drumbeat: one group after another calling on NJEA’s leadership to authorize one-year salary freezes to its local affiliates. Forgot about Christie’s letter
How Do You Get From Trenton to Montgomery?
A new organization, Citizens for Successful Schools, examines the gaping disparities in opportunity and achievement between poor and rich districts in New Jersey. Example: Montgomery
First Crack In the Dike?
Ignoring the counsel of NJEA executives, the West Essex Education Association has just voted 133-7 for a wage freeze, reports the Star-Ledger. online pharmacy sildalis
NAEP Scores Out
New Jersey’s 2009 NAEP (National Assessment for Education Progress) reading scores are hot off the press. Look here buy cozaar online buy cozaar online no
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From Barbara Keshishian, NJEA President: In New Jersey, school employees’ contracts are negotiated locally, and each local association may decide whether or not to reopen
NJEA: Fashion Disaster
Big education news today: In a letter to NJEA Prez Barbara Keshishian and NJSBA Exec. Dir. Marie Bilik, Gov. Christie has formally requested that teachers
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The Statehouse halls were lined today with teachers as the Assembly looked at bills that would, among other things, require teachers to pay 1.5 percent
Trenton Prefers Not To
What to do when your state aid has been cut and your Superintendent recommends closing three elementary schools and eliminating 200 jobs? If you’re the
Our F-Word Schools
The educational bureaucracy cannot bring itself to say the F-word — ‘failing.’So let me say it. These schools are failing the students of our state.
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NJEA President Barbara Keshishian to an audience of local union presidents regarding recent events: buy clomid online clomid online generic I wanted to speak to
NJ’s Charter School Charade
Amidst the ruckus surrounding Gov. Christie’s $819 million cut in state aid to public schools we’re detecting a spike of attention to charter schools, often
