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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One of Those Jersey Lake Wobegons
CentralJersey reports that teachers in Montgomery Township are lobbying the local school board to bring in a budget at the 4% allowed by cap. Why?
Ravitch on Obama and Charters
Diane Ravitch, Education historian, Research Professor of Education at New York University, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford and the Brookings Institute, offers
Davy Gets Off-Track
Education Commissioner Lucille Davy continues to argue for school consolidation this week during an interview with Asbury Park Press editorial board online pharmacy order aricept
NJEA: Having it Both Ways
North Jersey gives the NJEA’s boiler-plate response to Obama’s call for performance-based pay for teachers: Steve Baker, a spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association,
SFRA Update
Star-Ledger columnist Bob Braun updates us online pharmacy purchase suhagra no prescription with best prices today in the USA on the State Funding Reform Act
Obama On Education Reform
Here’s the education nut of Obama’s address last night: online pharmacy purchase sildalis without prescription with best prices today in the USA online pharmacy buy
Musical Chairs in Willingboro
What happens when a school gets flagged enough times by the NCLB watchdogs to merit the dreaded sanction “Implement Restructuring Plan?” It’s happening in Willingboro
Paging Bill Murray
We’ve occasionally looked across the Delaware River to see how our neighbors in Pennsylvania are faring with Governor Rendell’s aggressive attempts at consolidating their 511
Sunday Leftovers
NJSBA Gets Gob-Smacked: Princeton School Board member Joshua Leinsdorf blasts NJSBA as a money-gobbling lobbying group that stymies minority involvement. He writes in the Trenton
Davy Smack-Down
This month’s “School Leader,” online pharmacy lipitor no prescription with best prices today in the USA NJSBA’s bimonthly magazine, mostly comprises a special section called
Redesigning High School Redesign
The Star-Ledger reports today that the DOE granted “preliminary approval” to their own plan to increase graduation requirements for the state’s high schools. (Boy, must
School Board Games
Joe Albright of Jersey Journal wonders aloud whether Senate President Dick Codey is “running out the clock” on legislation that would move school board elections
Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work
My Central Jersey reports that a group of 13 teachers and administrators from Edison used a $897,500 federal grant to travel to India for 12
Teacher Pay Palaver
The lead article in the Star-Ledger today says that the economic recession is slightly influencing teacher contract talks, but not without some blowback by the
It’s the NJEA, Stupid
The Beacon, a weekly paper in Lambertville (Hunterdon County), praises two local school districts for freezing administrators’ salaries for the coming year. Lambertville Public School
Abbott vs. SFRA
The Asbury Park Press has a well-reasoned editorial today on why Corzine should reverse his preschool plans right now. This past Spring Corzine announced to
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Prison Prep?: Martin Perez, of the Latino Leadership Alliance of NJ, testifies on the connection between failing schools in cities like Newark and Camden, wasted
Elizabethean Manners
The Star-Ledger reports that a group of enraged parents have filed a court injunction against the Elizabeth Board of Education for limiting their public comment
Stale Doughnuts
The Star-Ledger reports on a bill making its way through the Assembly that would force N.J.’s dozen “doughnut” municipalities to merge. Doughnuts are small towns
