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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Corzine, Daggett, Christie Triptych
You mean there’s someone else running for Governor besides Corzine and Christie? Yup – his name is Chris Daggett online pharmacy buy cellcept online no
Sunday Leftovers
High School Redesign:The Star-Ledger begins a series today on New Jersey high school reform. Today’s piece is on the D.O.E.’s High School Redesign, which raises
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To say we had some preconceived notion isn’t fair to us. We look at all the facts. Joyce Powell, President of the NJEA, on whether
NJEA Flags “The Cartel” as a Right-Wing Conspiracy
Last month, Bob Bowdon’s documentary “The Cartel” premiered at the Hoboken Film Festival. The movie criticizes American education, and New Jersey in particular, as over-priced
Christie Disses NJEA
The New Jersey Education Association just issued this press release announcing that Chris Christie will not seek its endorsement: In a letter to NJEA President
Corzine, Christie, and NJEA
Why is Corzine’s labor deal with CWA a bad sign for education reform in New Jersey? The jury’s still out on whether a deal that
$210K for 2,100 Kids
The Record has a little blurb today about Ridgefield Public Schools online pharmacy buy strattera no prescription pharmacy , which just hired a new superintendent,
Cory Booker on Charter Schools
For too long we’ve looked at charter schools and traditional public schools as separate. The great thing about Dr. (Clifford) Janey [Newark Superintendent] is he
N.J. Has The Highest Graduation Rate in the U.S. Not.
The Record crows today, New Jersey continues to lead the nation in the percentage of students who graduate from high school, according to a national
A Preschool Proposal
The stakes are high: if New Jersey doesn’t provide free public preschool to all poor children, then it has violated its spanking new School Funding
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As part of a listening tour, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is coming to New Jersey Friday. He will visit North Star Academy with Corzine
Sunday Leftovers
Top Teachers + No Frills = Great Education?:The Equity Project, a new charter school in Harlem, is testing a hypothesis: search across the country for
Davy Blooper
Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced today in Newark that New Jersey will receive $891 million in federal stimulus funding. According to the Associated Press, New
ELC to Duncan: Hold Back N.J.’s Stimulus Money
Charles Barone, Director of Federal Policy at Democrats for Education Reform and blogger at Swift & Change Able (put it on your reading list), has
Teaching as a Serial Career
The Daily Record reports that over the next five years 40% of Morris County’s teaching force will retire. Some districts – Chester, East Hanover, Mine
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The great moral outrage of our time is the way the public schools establishment puts its interests ahead of children, trying to kill every school
Does That Include Lunch?
Loch Arbour, the tiny wealthy Ocean County village obliged to pay $68,000 a student under an equally tiny provision of the School Funding Reform Act
Does the D.O.E. Need an I.E.P.?
About two weeks ago, Education Commissioner Lucille Davy sent a memo to N.J. superintendents and special education directors. The purpose of her memo was to
NEA on Merit Pay
Joan Whitlow, formerly a Star-Ledger editorialist and now with New Jersey Newsroom, opines that we should send teachers to summer school: Some of what is
Consolidation on the Down-Low
The New York Times makes the case for consolidating small towns in the tri-state area. New Jersey, of course, is cited as the “extreme example,”
