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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Some Friendly Advice to NJEA
When Chris Christie introduced his pension reform proposals yesterday, the reaction of the leadership of NJEA was fast and fierce. Within moments an email blast
Close Down Camden High
The Courier-Post is in high dudgeon online pharmacy buy periactin with best prices today in the USA over managerial misdoings at Camden City Public Schools.
Out Tomorrow: Teachers Must Contribute to Health Care Benefits
The Star-Ledger is reporting that tomorrow Gov. Christie will announce major pension and benefit reforms that will affect all public employees, including school teachers. The
Sunday Leftovers
Big question for fiscally functional school districts: is the State going to seize our carefully nurtured surplus funds? Senate President Steve Sweeney tells Today’s Sunbeam
Fact-Checking the NJEA
After Gov. Christie’s Education Subcommittee’s recommended that the Legislature reinstall the ability of school boards to use the practice of “last, best offer” during negotiation
In “How Unions Work”
Megan McArdle argues that teacher unions kill initiatives to tie compensation to performance because unions are always going to be looking for the simplest, least
Education Law Center’s Field of Dreams
The Education Law Center (ELC), NJ’s preeminent defender of poor urban schoolchildren, has just issued another in its series of upbeat press releases, this one
The Soft Shoe of School Board/Union Negotiations
The Asbury Park Press slams the Marlboro Board of Education for taking a hard line with the local teachers union during contract negotiations and then,
NJ’s “Sham Reform”
Kevin Huffman in the Washington Post online pharmacy buy lexapro online with best prices today in the USA (hat tip: Schoolfinance101) has this to say
Teachers’ Salaries Have Either 1) Gone Down or 2) Gone Up
First NEA put out a press release claiming that “inflation over the past decade has outpaced teachers’ salaries in every state across the country.” Bloggers
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Derrell Bradford, online pharmacy biaxin buy with best prices today in the USA executive director of the Newark-based advocacy group Excellent Education for Everyone, explains
RTTT/ESEA: Think Long Distance Running, Not Sprint
The US DOE has posted President Obama’s education budget, which puts to rest any doubt that Race To The Top goals will inform the reauthorization
Lifeline for Trenton Central High?
In yesterday’s Trenton Times Drs. James Deneen and Carmen Catanese propose a three-part fix for Trenton Central High School, one of NJ’s most dysfunctional educational
Dialogue of the Day
Gov. Tom Kean and Gov. Brendan Byrne in the Star-Ledger re: annual salary increases for teachers: Q: The governor’s advisory panels made a number of
Quote of the Day
The Obama administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of President Bush’s signature education law, No Child Left Behind, and will call for broad changes in
Sunday Leftovers
The Courier-Post analyzed the rate of teacher absenteeism in Camden Public Schools and found that teachers are absent more than kids. For example, At South
HS Principal=Community Activist
However you react to South Ward Council candidate/Principal of Newark Central High Ras Baraka (earlier coverage here), this anecdote from PolitickerNJ is worthwhile. At a
Quote of the Day
Joe (not Joel) Klein in Time Magazine berates the NY State Legislature for cowering before the powers at the UFT and turning down $700 million
We’re in receipt of a memo from NJEA,
dated yesterday, which itemizes its objections to new recommendations from Gov. Christie’s transition subcomittees regarding pension and educational reforms. (Sorry: no link available.) Predictably, the
School Choice Comes to Jersey,
as long as you dwell in the shining city on a hill, otherwise known as Princeton. West Windsor-Plainsboro works too. The Trenton Times reports today
