County-Wide Preschools!
Laura Waters
November 12, 2008
New Jersey’s public schools, under a new state mandate to provide free preschool to 3, 4, and 5 year-olds from low-income families, are in a
Joe the Lawyer
Laura Waters
November 10, 2008
The Press of Atlantic City has an article today about the negative reactions generated by the new graduation requirements recently issued by the DOE. At
Where Would Malia and Sasha Go to School in NJ?
Laura Waters
November 9, 2008
Eduwonkette has a great piece up called “Where Will Malia Ann and Sasha Obama go to School?” Says the author, Odds are that the Obamas
Mountain-Climbing in Jersey
Laura Waters
November 6, 2008
In a memo released Monday, Education Commissioner Lucille Davy announced that the U.S. Department of Education had approved some New Jersey slippage in our nation’s
So Sue Me…
Laura Waters
November 3, 2008
The Record reports today on the lawsuit pressed by the New Jersey Association of School Administrators against the Department of Education. After the negative media
Feverish Atlantic City
Laura Waters
November 2, 2008
Here are two vignettes from the NJSBA convention. The first one: it’s Tuesday afternoon, and the Atlantic City Convention Center is way below capacity: school
Some Q & A
Laura Waters
October 31, 2008
The State Legislative Update panel at the NJSBA convention might have been standing-room-only because of Corzine’s last-minute appearance (see here), but the crowd, mainly comprising
Davy Plays Defense
Laura Waters
October 30, 2008
The New Jersey School Boards Association annual convention is normally a staid event: long days wandering through the vendors’ exhibits and picking up free pens
Live-Blogging from NJSBA
Laura Waters
October 29, 2008
We’re live-blogging from the New Jersey School Boards Association annual convention in Atlantic City — 10,000 school board members, business administrators, superintendents, vendors, NJSBA reps.
Lake Wobegone Begone
Laura Waters
October 27, 2008
Brace yourselves. The new scores for the state assessments are coming out and they’re not pretty. Two distinct elements contribute to the lack of glamour: