NJ Department of Education (DOE)

NJSBA Slams NJ DOE’s Proposal to Augment Superintendent Power

New Jersey School Boards Association has no truck with a new DOE proposal that would let school superintendents unilaterally call…

12 years ago

NJ State Board of Ed Flummoxed by Camden’s 49% Graduation Rate

At last week’s meeting of the NJ State Board of Education, reports the Courier-Post, much attention was focused on the…

12 years ago

CREDO Study: Newark Charters Rule

Everyone’s talking about the new CREDO study, just released yesterday.  The highly-regarded Stanford study looks at the performance of charter…

12 years ago

The Future of No Child Left Behind and New Jersey’s Prospects

Here's today's WHYY Newsworks post on the future of No Child Left Behind and NJ's shift to a more granular…

12 years ago

Confronting the High Costs of Special Education in NJ

My WHYY Newsworks post this week looks at New Jersey's high costs associated with special education, specifically our habit of…

12 years ago

Highlights from the NJ DOE’s Education Transformation Task Force Report

Yesterday the Christie Administration released the long-awaited the Education Transformation Task Force report. As NJ Spotlight reports, the 239-page report…

12 years ago

Andy Smarick Leaving NJ DOE

According to Andrew Rotherham at Eduwonk, Mr. Smarick is joining Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the achievement…

12 years ago

Education Law Center Files OPRA Request for Lakewood

Education Law Center has filed an OPRA request for “detailed documentation about the Lakewood school district's plan to reconfigure school…

12 years ago

WHYY Post: Statehouse Democrats Want to Cut All Funding for NJ’s Regional Achievement Centers

My post today at WHYY's Newsworks looks at a a potential casualty of the Legislature's budget debate: NJ's Regional Achievement…

12 years ago

NJ Report Cards Cause Consternation Re: “Real” Cost Per Pupil

The NJ DOE released the 2010-2011 School Report Cards yesterday, with a few new bells and whistles. One new feature…

12 years ago