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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Every state and every region in the country is stuck with some form of anachronistic and expensive local government structure that dates to horse-drawn wagons,
Special Review Assessment Denial
Reverend Reginald T. Jackson, Executive Director of The Black Ministers’ Council of New Jersey, testified before the State Board of Education last week and expressed
High Anxiety: School Board Elections Tomorrow
Tomorrow is Election Day for school board candidates and 550 school district budgets. Dire predictions abound, as school budgets are the only arena for tax-tired
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Mercer Technical School Broke: The Times of Trenton reports that the Mercer County Technical schools, six training centers in central Jersey, are “falling apart.” Superintendent
D.O.E. Bait and Switch
The Education Law Center has been busy. After apparently going AWOL after the Judge Peter Doyne ruled last month that the new State Funding Reform
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In the end, the savings to Glen Gardner would likely be minimal. But in a broader sense that shouldn’t matter. Even if the community didn’t
Hoisting Your Own Petard
The Education Law Center released a report yesterday that shows that the State has disregarded its own spanking-new funding formula, the School Funding Reform Act.
Arne Duncan the Drag Queen
The New York Times has a piece today buy cialis-soft online cialis-soft no prescription that pits No Child Left Behind advocates against its defamers. To
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This just confirms … the ineptitude of the state Department of Education to give more attention to the cycle 1 scores (first released scores) than
Does Montague Need a Geography Lesson?
The New Jersey Herald is reporting on a bizarre situation in the Sussex County school district of Montague where parents are complaining that the district
Undermining S.F.R.A.
Governor Corzine’s grand plan to provide all poor three and four-year-old children with publicly funded preschools is colliding with reality. Currently all young children in
Wimping Out on Consolidation
The D.O.E. has ordered Executive County Superintendents to file reports by March 2010 on consolidation of school districts, and word is leaking out that the
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New Recessionary Budget Trend: Districts in N.J. are starting to cut high school freshmen sports, says the Gloucester County Times. Charter Schools in Camden: The
N.Y. and New Jersey’s School Reform
Diane Ravitch’s op-ed in the New York Times online pharmacy https://dentpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kamagra-polo.html no prescription today accuses New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel
D.O.E. letter Promoting Fiscal Irresponsibility
Here’s the letter from the D.O.E. dated March 31st, which informs districts that they will not be receiving state aid payments for April-June 2009 and
Anti-Tenurists Are Hip
You know that the zeitgeist in New Jersey has tilted away from the merits of teacher tenure when The Star-Ledger Editorial board denounces it. Today’s
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“We’re trying to come up with a new way to distribute educational dollars not based on zip codes.” Governor Jon Corzine at a budget forum
New Jersey Preschools: The Most Expensive in the Country
A new report is out today on national preschool costs and access, courtesy of The Rutgers-based National Institute for Early Education Research. Right now 38
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I have had the opportunity to attend several events over the last few weeks and hear what various DOE officials and legislators are saying and
New Jersey’s Math War
Here’s a piece from the Star-Ledger on New Jersey’s “math wars,” the pedagogical conflict between those who advocate reform math and those who promote traditional
