School Funding Drinking Game: Count Those Proposals!
Laura Waters
February 2, 2017
I curled up in front of CNN on the evening of November 8th, cozied by a glass of wine and presumptions of a Clinton victory.
Newark Parents Fight New Jersey’s Unjust and Immoral Teacher Lay-Off Law
Laura Waters
November 3, 2016
The son of Newark mother Noemi Vazquez is one of 10 plaintiffs in a lawsuit called HG v. Harrington that was filed this week in
Here’s Why New Jersey’s School Aid Formula is Broken
Laura Waters
September 8, 2016
Today the Star-Ledger marvels over the new Phillipsburg High School building, a “sprawling 326,000-square-foot school built atop a hill off Belvidere Road in Lopatcong Township.”
And Education Law Center Gets Something RIght
Laura Waters
July 6, 2016
Fair is fair. Here’s an excerpt from ELC’s press release on Gov. Christie, which crowns him the “most anti-public education Governor in modern New Jersey
Correcting the Record: Education Law Center Gets the Facts (and Scapegoat) Wrong on District Consolidation
Laura Waters
July 6, 2016
Yesterday NJTV asked a great question about New Jersey’s education system: why do residents, in a school system with more school districts per square mile
Parsing NJEA’s Tax Filings & Considering NJ’s Fiscal State if Christie Wasn’t Governor
Laura Waters
June 21, 2016
Jeff Bennett at New Jersey Education Aid asks this question: if Jon Corzine had won another term or Barbara Buono had beat Christie in New Jersey’s
Camden Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard on the “False Dichotomy” of Fixing Education vs. Fixing Poverty
Laura Waters
April 26, 2016
“There is a tiresome debate in education as far as, ‘Do you fix education to cure poverty or do you cure poverty to cure education?’
Nine out of Ten of New Jersey’s Top High Schools Are School Choice Magnets
Laura Waters
April 20, 2016
U.S. News and World Report just issued their annual list of America’s top 100 high schools and five of them are in New Jersey. Here’s
New NJ Spotlight Column: NJ’s School Funding Formula and Abbott Designations Are Fossilized: Time to Move On
Laura Waters
April 1, 2016
It starts here: In 1991, two German hikers found a frozen body in the Otzal Alps on the Austrian-Italian border. “Otzi,” as he’s fondly called,
Trenton’s Special Education Secret (and one piece of its budget crisis): 900 Children Bussed Away Each Day to Other Schools
Laura Waters
March 24, 2016
Everyone knows it but just about everyone is afraid to say it: New Jersey’s school funding formula is irreparably broken. For proof, legislators need to