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.’s RTTT Information Packet
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How About an Interdistrict Teacher Choice Program?
The Senate Assembly Education Committee was told yesterday afternoon that we can improve our failing urban schools by pairing successful, experienced teachers with struggling students,
A Shot at Re-Relevancy For Education Law Center
What’s going on at Education Law Center, N.J.’s preeminent advocate for poor urban schoolchildren? ELC’s ethos is educational equity and closing the achievement gap, setting
Quotes of the Day
Kevin Manahan of the Star-Ledger Editorial Board helpfully offers suggestions to Senator Dick Codey on how he can become relevant again: He could reinvent himself
Sunday Leftovers
Not a merry holiday for New Jersey School Boards Association: First, the bruhaha over lobbyists who collect government pensions, including 47 NJSBA retirees and 73
Happy Holidays from NJ Left Behind
Thanks, as always, for reading. We’ll be back next week with more news and analysis of public education reform in the Garden State.
NJSBA Gets RTTT-Fever?
New Jersey School Board Association’s Executive Director, Marie Bilik, has issued a set of recommendations to Gov.-elect Christie, including “advancing merit pay,” “the elimination of
Seeds of School Choice
During our rambles, we stumbled upon an interesting piece of testimony from 1998 during a hearing of the Senate Legislative Oversight Committee regarding our incubating
Warp Speed for Interdistrict School Choice
The Philadelphia Inquirer gives us a status report on our embryonic Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, conceived in 2000 as a five-year pilot. It’s been
Disability Rate in Camden High: 32.9%
A new bill on Gov. Corzine’s desk will create a 13-member reading disabilities task force that will study how best to educate students who have
NEA and the D.C. Voucher Program
The Wall Street Journal speculates that when the U.S. Senate approved a bill that kills the D.C. voucher program it was following orders from the
Sunday Leftovers
John Farmer, Dean of the Rutgers Law School, argues that the weakening of the power of the governor and the strengthening of local control has
NJEA And Merit Pay
Here’s NJEA in its December newsletter on why “both NEA and NJEA have made and will continue to make the case against merit pay:” because
Quote of the Day (with apologies to Diane Ravitch)
One of the reason Honda and Toyota ate General Motors’s lunch is that the Japanese car companies adopted statistical quality assurance while Detroit was still
N.J. One of “Disinterested Dozen” in RTTT Tech Support
EdWeek reports that “education policy wonks” are linking states’ odds of winning Race To The Top grants to whether or not they won technical assistance
Only in New Jersey
Newark Central High School’s principal, Ras Baraka, is engaged in a fierce battle to win a Council seat in the South Ward. Son of the
From Our In-Coming Big Cheese
Here’s Governor-Elect Christie (courtesy of the Asbury Park Press) on how to cut school costs, the main driver of N.J.’s crippling property taxes: online pharmacy
Quote of the Day
You can believe in choice because you believe in competition, or because you believe in freedom. You can believe in it because you think the
What Preschool Can Teach Us About “Diverse Delivery Systems”
A new report our from the New America Foundation depicts New Jersey’s preschool initiatives as innovative and successful, particularly because of our “diverse delivery system”
NJSBA and NJEA on November School Board Elections
Ray Pinney over at New Jersey School Boards Association predicts that “moving the school board member elections to November, along with eliminating the vote on
