NJ Department of Education (DOE)

Countdown Clock to RTTT Deadline: 40 Days

On June 1st, Race To The Top applications are due for states trying for the second round of the federal…

15 years ago

NJ’s Diploma Scam: Part I

Last Tuesday the Education Law Center (ELC) sent a letter to Commissioner Bret Schundler requesting that he “set aside the…

15 years ago

Grading the Core Curriculum Standards

Now that the Common Core State Standards Initiative has released proposed national standards for math and language arts, reviews are…

15 years ago

Schundler and the Reinvented DOE

Assembled school board members and administrators main-lining caffeine early Saturday morning in Harrison, NJ got their wake-up call, especially if…

15 years ago

MSM Gets Spun

Okay, okay, we weren’t there. But here’s our best guess: after the NJDOE sent out a press release yesterday offering…

15 years ago

Potholes in N.J.’s Race To The Top Track

Democrats for Education Reform has just put out a list of states that recognize the opportunities for children and schools…

15 years ago

RTTT as Political Football

The Star-Ledger has obtained a November 19th email to Ed Commish Lucille Davy from Susan Cole, head of Christie’s education…

15 years ago

Can New Jersey Salvage its RTTT Application?

True, things look bleak. Our Race To The Top application was gathering dust in the DOE until Monday when Lucille…

15 years ago

Race To The Top Detritus

Senators Tom Kean and Diane Allen, both members of the Senate Education Committee, expressed “disappointment” that N.J. “is woefully unprepared…

15 years ago

N.J. DOE Gets Okay From Feds to Redefine “Adequate Yearly Progress”

This past summer the DOE announced with great fanfare that it was raising the cut scores for ASK 3 and…

15 years ago