Reverend Reginald T. Jackson, Executive Director of The Black Ministers’ Council of New Jersey, testified before the State Board of Education last week and expressed
The Education Law Center has been busy. After apparently going AWOL after the Judge Peter Doyne ruled last month that the new State Funding Reform
This just confirms … the ineptitude of the state Department of Education to give more attention to the cycle 1 scores (first released scores) than
The New Jersey Herald is reporting on a bizarre situation in the Sussex County school district of Montague where parents are complaining that the district
Diane Ravitch’s op-ed in the New York Times today accuses New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein of fudging testing data
Here’s the letter from the D.O.E. dated March 31st, which informs districts that they will not be receiving state aid payments for April-June 2009 and
Here’s a piece from the Star-Ledger on New Jersey’s “math wars,” the pedagogical conflict between those who advocate reform math and those who promote traditional
Is school district consolidation efficient or inefficient? Today’s papers give us both sides of the argument. First, the Asbury Park Press reports on a panel
Local school districts in N.J. got an unhappy surprise yesterday afternoon at 4 pm: an email from the D.O.E. informing them that the State was
Last week, Judge Peter Doyne announced a ruling that, if upheld, will change the way we finance the education of poor children in New Jersey.