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New Newsworks column: N.J.’s School Funding Formula is as Broken as its Pension System

On Tuesday New Jersey Education Commissioner David Hespe had the hapless task of appearing before the Senate Budget Committee to…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: Throwing Money at the “Bacon” Districts Won’t Solve Their Problems

It starts here:The Education Law Center is in a rut. The ELC is an organization that describes itself as “the…

10 years ago

The “False Premise” of Education Law Center’s Latest School Funding Lawsuit

Last week I wrote about New Jersey’s “Bacon” lawsuit, an Abbott school funding case writ small. Sixteen rural districts in…

10 years ago

Can Education Law Center Bring Home the Bacon?

Education Law Center has joined the plaintiffs in the “Bacon” cases, a lawsuit that charges that sixteen small rural districts…

10 years ago

The “Hypocrisy” of Public Votes on Same-Sex Marriage and Charter Schools

Newsflash: Bob Braun, the columnist for the Star-Ledger, a staunch opponent of school choice, agrees with me. He just published…

13 years ago

Koshering NJ State Education Aid

Education Law Center, primary advocates for children in poor urban districts through decades of Abbott decisions, has filed an amicus…

13 years ago

NJ’s Poor Rural Districts Kvetch, “What Are We? Chopped Liver?”

The big educational story in New Jersey today is the suit filed in State Appeals Court on behalf of the…

13 years ago

Some Solutions, For Better or Worse

Jerry Cantrell of the New Jersey Taxpayers Association chimes in today on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Abbott…

16 years ago

Preschool Opportunity?

Dr. Rich Noonan, Superintendent of Madison Public Schools, posted a letter last week complaining about the new preschool mandate that…

16 years ago