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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What? D.O.E. Worry?
Here’s the official letter from Katherine P. Attwood, D.O.E. Assistant Commissioner of Finance, explaining what school districts in New Jersey should do in light of
D.O.E. Gets Some Remedial Math Tutelage
Ever wonder about the process the D.O.E. goes through when revising Core Curriculum Content Standards? Say, for instance, math curricula? Especially since 40% of New
Sunday Leftovers
Star-Ledger: Corzine is “kicking the can down the road” …by deferring $450 million in state aid payments, mostly for education, until July: Taxpayers with long
State “Delays” School Aid Payments
The Garden State Coalition of Schools just put out a press release regarding their conversation yesterday afternoon with Lucille Davy, who confirms that Corzine will
School Reform Ex-Lax
It’s de rigueur to blame the teachers’ unions for the constipation gumming up the works of school reform. online pharmacy purchase rogaine online generic Andrew
Groundhog Day for School Aid Payments?
From the Record: To get out of the current budget year without a deficit, the state will use $450 million from surplus funds and push
Whistling Dixie in Jersey
School districts and town councils continue to wrestle with failed budgets, and one puzzling item keeps appearing in news report: calls on the part of
N.J. Cheats Charters?
Jessani Gordon, Executive Director of the New Jersey Charter Public Schools Association, writes today about New Jersey’s “historic failure” to adequately fund charter school students.
Chiusano: All Evil Springs from Abbott
Assemblyman Gary Chiusano (Republican 24th District) is writing a series of editorials in the new New Jersey Newsroom, a web-based newspaper started by about 40
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Fixing [U.S. underperforming schools] is itself a multi-faceted challenge. In some cases, money is the issue. Local financing of schools means that students in rich
Pyrrhic Victory for NJEA
Teacher unions have been under more scrutiny lately, especially the tenure laws that force districts to retain incompetent instructors (see here from the L.A. Times
From Booker’s “A Hard Look at Education”
I have no loyalty to charter schools, traditional public schools, magnet schools, small school models, publicly funded scholarships (vouchers) or private schools. I have loyalty
Charter School Fever
There’s been a fair amount of buzz regarding David Brooks’ column in the New York Times this past Friday. Brooks highlights The Promise Academy, a
Sunday Leftovers
Fallout from school Budget Failures: While about 70% of school budgets passed in New Jersey on April 21st, the ones that failed to gain voter
Swine Whine
LUARC, the Local Unit Alignment Reorganization and Consolidation Commission, is ready to get serious about consolidating “doughnut hole” communities with their surrounding municipalities. The Philadelphia
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New Jersey will go bankrupt in 10 to 20 years because we cannot afford our employees as a state. I’m talking about every worker from
Moorestown and Willingboro: Separate and Unequal
Two of our favorite towns made the news today: Moorestown and Willingboro of Burlington County. They’re nine miles apart, but seem to exist in alternate
Green Dot’s Steve Barr
Great Douglas McGray article in the May 11th issue of The New Yorker on Steve Barr of Green Dot, the charter school group in Los
High School Can of Worms
Derrell Bradford of E3 (Excellent Education for Everyone) has a new column out that slams the D.O.E.’s Special Review Assessment, the test that high schoolers
Another Chink in the D.O.E.’s Credibility
Remember a couple of months ago when N.J. school districts wiped a sweaty brow in relief after Governor Corzine presented his budget and announced that
