Divining Christie’s Fiscal Strategy
Laura Waters
March 31, 2010
When Gov. Christie slashed $819 million in state school aid on March 16th he wasn’t simply trying to balance a budget. In one fell swoop,
NJ Plays “Biggest Loser”
Laura Waters
March 16, 2010
It’s Budget Day in the Garden State and school district business administrators are frantically running spreadsheets based on projected cuts in state aid while superintendents
ELC Takes on Christie
Laura Waters
March 10, 2010
How mad is the Education Law Center over education spending cuts in NJ? This mad: ELC has joined with Dollars and Sense, the Paterson Education
Conflicting Roles for NJEA’s Giordano
Laura Waters
March 1, 2010
Vince Giordano, NJEA’s Executive Director, makes no bones about his organization’s key positions: maintain 4%-5% annual salary increases for teachers, stymie attempts to mandate contributions
Education Law Center’s Field of Dreams
Laura Waters
February 4, 2010
The Education Law Center (ELC), NJ’s preeminent defender of poor urban schoolchildren, has just issued another in its series of upbeat press releases, this one
A Shot at Re-Relevancy For Education Law Center
Laura Waters
January 4, 2010
What’s going on at Education Law Center, N.J.’s preeminent advocate for poor urban schoolchildren? ELC’s ethos is educational equity and closing the achievement gap, setting
NJ Coalition for Math Challenges Common Core Standards
Laura Waters
November 16, 2009
The NJ Coalition for World Class Math, a group of mathematicians, engineers, scientists, and parents representing about 25 N.J. districts, has been pushing the NJ
N.J.’s Use of ARRA Funds
Laura Waters
August 11, 2009
The Campaign for Educational Equity based at Teachers College, Columbia University, has published an analysis of each state’s application for ARRA school stimulus money. Its
Education Law Center Logic Lapse
Laura Waters
July 30, 2009
The Education Law Center’s current agenda, as evidenced by some recent publications, betrays some cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, ELC damns the State Legislature
Supreme Court Gets Mugged
Laura Waters
May 29, 2009
The difference is monumental, no matter how it is measured. Those needs go beyond educational needs, they include food, clothing, and shelter, and extend to