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What’s More Important? Local Control or Student Outcomes?

From my post today at WHYY Newsworks,"What's More Important: Local Control or Student Outcomes?"In New Jersey, nothing gets our blood…

12 years ago

Just How Much Is NJ Willing To Pay for Local Control?

My post this week at Newsworks WHYY is called "When Looking at School Consolidation, Let's Talk Money." How does an…

13 years ago

Consolidation of School Districts?

Today’s Trentonian posits a thought experiment on the consolidation of municipalities in Mercer County. The new map is formed with…

13 years ago

Is It Time For County-Wide School Districts?

The Council of New Jersey Grantmakers thinks so. Its new report, “Facing Our Future,” looks at the “tsunami” of eroding…

13 years ago

Quote of the Day

From "Facing Our Future":New Jersey overwhelmingly retains the same governmental complexity as it has for more than 150 years: the…

13 years ago

Newsflash: GOP Candidates Debate Education Reform

So I’m in my usual Republican Debate position, cringing in front of the TV as four white men attack women’s…

13 years ago

NJ’s Flunks Charter School Test

The new report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, "Measuring Up to the Model: A Tool for Comparing…

13 years ago

GOP Candidates: Where’s the Education Beef?

Is it just me or does it seem that during this Republican Presidential Primary process there’s an astonishing lack of…

13 years ago

NJ’s Charter School Politics

When is a bill not just a bill?When it’s A 3582, which directs that the NJ Education Commissioner “shall not…

13 years ago

NJ’s Poor Rural Districts Kvetch, “What Are We? Chopped Liver?”

The big educational story in New Jersey today is the suit filed in State Appeals Court on behalf of the…

13 years ago