home rule

Consolidate This!

Here’s a couple of other relevant tidbits from the Ghost of Journalism Past as the State DOE makes a concerted…

16 years ago

Mud Wrestling

As we witness the current wrestling match between home rule advocates and consolidation converts, it’s useful to move a few…

16 years ago

Corzine Takes on Locals

Here’s the Star-Ledger’s take on Corzine’s proposal yesterday to raise high school graduation requirements in New Jersey. The bottom line…

16 years ago

Sea of Troubles for NJ superintendents

Slings and arrows continue to pierce the sore hides of New Jersey's superintendents. The Star-Ledger reports on a business administrator…

16 years ago

NJ School Boards Musketeers

Marie Bilik, Executive Director of New Jersey School Boards Association, has been busy defending the honor of NJ's 4800 school…

16 years ago

Feds Take a Pass

Last night a federal court ruled that the State DOE had indeed overstepped its power by trying to regulate superintendents'…

16 years ago

Easy Come, Easy Go

The New York Times reports today on an ongoing dispute about the economics and politics of school construction in New…

16 years ago

Check Your Blind Spot

New Jersey’s 615 school districts weep inefficiency. So it’s old news that the State is pushing hard on mergers of…

16 years ago

Large Nuts

Today's Jersey section of the New York Times reviews the current excitement over the few NJ public school superintendents who…

16 years ago

Casting Call for Crash Dummies

Local school boards and DOE mandates continue to collide as the Jersey papers wax on about limits on superintendent perks…

16 years ago