NJ Department of Education (DOE)

County-Wide Preschools!

New Jersey’s public schools, under a new state mandate to provide free preschool to 3, 4, and 5 year-olds from…

16 years ago

Joe the Lawyer

The Press of Atlantic City has an article today about the negative reactions generated by the new graduation requirements recently…

16 years ago

Where Would Malia and Sasha Go to School in NJ?

Eduwonkette has a great piece up called “Where Will Malia Ann and Sasha Obama go to School?” Says the author,Odds…

16 years ago

Mountain-Climbing in Jersey

In a memo released Monday, Education Commissioner Lucille Davy announced that the U.S. Department of Education had approved some New…

16 years ago

So Sue Me…

The Record reports today on the lawsuit pressed by the New Jersey Association of School Administrators against the Department of…

16 years ago

Feverish Atlantic City

Here are two vignettes from the NJSBA convention. The first one: it’s Tuesday afternoon, and the Atlantic City Convention Center…

16 years ago

Some Q & A

The State Legislative Update panel at the NJSBA convention might have been standing-room-only because of Corzine’s last-minute appearance (see here),…

16 years ago

Davy Plays Defense

The New Jersey School Boards Association annual convention is normally a staid event: long days wandering through the vendors’ exhibits…

16 years ago

Live-Blogging from NJSBA

We're live-blogging from the New Jersey School Boards Association annual convention in Atlantic City -- 10,000 school board members, business…

16 years ago

Lake Wobegone Begone

Brace yourselves. The new scores for the state assessments are coming out and they’re not pretty. Two distinct elements contribute…

16 years ago