Christie

The NJ State Board of Education Chooses Low Risk-Low Reward in New Charter Proposals

Earlier this year Gov. Christie made several modest proposals intended to tweak our twenty-seven year old charter school law. One…

8 years ago

School Funding Drinking Game: Count Those Proposals!

I curled up in front of CNN on the evening of November 8th, cozied by a glass of wine and…

8 years ago

Let’s Avoid “Alternative Facts” When We Talk About School Choice and Charter Schools

Over the weekend, Americans were introduced to a new meme: “alternative facts,” Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway’s awkward rationalization of the president’s reality-challenged…

8 years ago

Anticipated Confrontation at Tonight’s Camden School Board Meeting Ignores Student and Teacher Needs

"All Camden High alumni should be proud of what is taking place here. It's for our children. It's not about…

8 years ago

Latino Parent Voices Are Ignored in Red Bank as NJEA Muffles Expansion Plans

Leaders of the New Jersey Education Association often profess disdain for public charter schools. But how far will they go…

8 years ago

Newark Parents Fight New Jersey’s Unjust and Immoral Teacher Lay-Off Law

The son of Newark mother Noemi Vazquez is one of 10 plaintiffs in a lawsuit called HG v. Harrington that…

8 years ago

Correcting the Record: Education Law Center Gets the Facts (and Scapegoat) Wrong on District Consolidation

Yesterday NJTV asked a great question about New Jersey’s education system: why do residents, in a school system with more…

8 years ago

What Was Christie’s Real Motive in Proposing a Radical — and Unpassable — School Funding Plan?

In just the last week New York and New Jersey residents were confronted with some hard facts about K-12 student…

8 years ago

A Few Corrections to Dana Goldstein’s Slate Piece on Christie’s School Funding Proposal

Dana Goldstein has an article in Slate today called “Chris Christie’s Education Plan is Shocking.” While there’s much to like…

8 years ago

Under Christie’s School Funding Plan, State School Aid to His Home Town Would Increase by 1335%

In today's Record, Charles Stile reflects on Gov. Christie's proposal to place a referendum on the 2017 November ballot to…

8 years ago