Christie

N.J. School Boards to Christie: Don’t Slough off Pension Contributions on Local Districts

New Jersey School Boards President Larry Feinsod reacts to Gov. Christie's pension and health benefits reform plan, specifically the proposal…

10 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: Time For NJEA to Seize the Microphone on Health Benefits, Pensions

It starts here:"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop," said pragmatist Herbert Stein, and the New Jersey public…

10 years ago

Christie Celebrates “Historic Agreement” with NJEA; NJEA says “Not”

Gov. Christie gave his budget address yesterday afternoon and the big news was what he described as a “historic agreement”…

10 years ago

Throw-Back Tuesday: N.J. Was Looking At Computer-Based Assessments Fifteen Years Ago

Fifteen years ago the N.J. School Boards Association reported on “new challenges” to the state’s public schools. The State had…

10 years ago

N.J. Reconsiders the “Harrowing Stresses” of “Data-Driven Education”

On Friday New Jersey’s “Study Commission on the Use of Student Assessments in New Jersey.” issued its Interim Report. (See…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: Christie Gives the Bird to a School Choice Program

It starts here:"It's a great program," says New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney.  It "meets an important need, and it…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: Why a Christie Presidential Run is Good for N.J.’s Teachers’ Union

It starts here:The nation’s atwitter about a potential Republican nomination brawl between Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, as well as…

10 years ago

The Daily Record on Common Core and PARCC: “Get a Horse”

Yesterday The Daily Record published an editorial that slams both the Common Core State Standards and the tests aligned with…

10 years ago

Guest Editorial: “New Jersey and the Myth of SFRA”

Here's an editorial by Essex County Board member Jeff Bennett on the absurdities of N.J.'s allocation of school state aid…

10 years ago

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Gives Jersey an “A” for Schools and an “F” for Pensions

This week's WHYY Newsworks column starts here:Last week the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued its national school rankings called "Leaders…

10 years ago