Education Law Center

NJ School Funding Formula Collides with Reality

Both NJ Spotlight and the Star Ledger cover the discrepancies between  Gov. Christie's actual school district state aid, per his…

11 years ago

New WHYY post: New Camden Charter Schools Provoke Specious Allegations

Just up at WHYY's Newsworks:Is the opening of more charter schools in Camden City a cause for celebration or legal…

11 years ago

Newark Public Schools Responds to “Critique” of Charter/Traditional Collaboration Plan

This past January Bruce Baker ( Rutgers prof. and anti-reform blogger) and Mark Weber (Baker’s Ph.D. student and anti-reform blogger)…

11 years ago

Sen. Sweeney: Let’s Cut that 2% School Tax Increase Cap Down to 0%

No, that was no slip of the tongue the other day: Sen. President Sweeney is serious about a zero tax…

11 years ago

Reaction to Christie’s Proposal for Longer School Days and Years

How much airtime did Gov. Christie devote to  education in his State of the State speech yesterday afternoon? The whole…

11 years ago

An Education Reformer and an “Old School” Proponent Find Common Ground

Sometimes it seems like the positions of education “reformers” and education status quo proponents grow more entrenched each year.  Certainly,…

11 years ago

Education isn’t the only thing rotten at Camden High

There's been tons of coverage of the decrepit conditions at Trenton Central High School, including this from the Huffington Post,…

11 years ago

Don’t miss…

today's Asbury Park Press editorial debate on the virtues (or not) of NJ's public school choice program that allows students…

11 years ago

Camden Looks for New Charters: Is it Better to Wait?

Big news for Camden this week: the school district there, under new leadership of Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard, has put out…

11 years ago

Has Abbott Funding “Helped Close the Gap in Test Scores”?

Today’s Business Section of the New York Times has an article by Eduardo Porter about the inequitable distribution of public…

11 years ago