NJ’s School Report Cards, the state data base for student achievement based on standardized tests, is still under embargo. But here’s a few data points.
During President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, he dropped in a proposal that students should not be permitted to leave high school
Yesterday there were 38 New Jersey school boards that had voted to move their elections to November. Today, just a week after passage of the
How pissed off is Education Law Center over the proposed Urban Hope Act, the fast-tracked bill that would (in its most recent incarnation) build a
Earlier this week I commented on Dr. Bruce Baker’s description of New Jersey’s historical preference for the “extreme segregation” of poor minority kids into chronically
NJ’s Education Law Center has just released a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan requesting that NJ’s application for a waiver from the
The Courier-Post is all over Camden Public Schools’ failure to accurately report incidents of violence and vandalism. (See earlier story here.) Each year, per state
The NJ Board of Education’s Closing the Achievement Gap Task Force has started meeting and will soon hold public hearings. The Task Force comprises 10
The Common Sense Institute of New Jersey, a libertarian organization that opposes current levels of government spending, has just put out a new report called
This past March the ACLU-NJ filed a lawsuit against the NJ DOE to get the list of volunteers who reviewed the last round of charter