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The Cost of Tiny School Districts

Great piece from the Press of Atlantic City on South Jersey's multiple itsy-bitsy school districts: Avalon budgeted nearly $40,000 to…

13 years ago

Home Rule Run Amok

The Record’s Charles Stile profiles Senator Gerald Cardinale, Republican from Demerest, whose remarks on the Senator floor this week constituted…

13 years ago

Quote of the Day

The system for funding and operating our public schools is hopelessly wasteful: a fractured, Byzantine system that allows good money…

13 years ago

Quote of the Day

By any measure, New Jersey has one of the most segregated school systems in the country. We have to reopen…

14 years ago

Quote of the Day

Home rule aside, if taxpayers want to see savings, good schools and maintain manageable class sizes, creating 21 school districts…

14 years ago

Quote of the Day

James Ahearn of The Record on superintendent salary caps:Christie isn’t the first American governor to peg superintendent salaries to his…

14 years ago

Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!

The Asbury Park Press has this to say about school district consolidation: “it’s dead in the water, at least for…

14 years ago

Quote of the Day

Vince Giordano, the overpaid director of the state teachers union, sat at the witness table in a Senate committee room…

14 years ago

Quote of the Day

What everyone knows – and few will admit – is that the only way to reduce property taxes in New…

14 years ago

You Know That Business About Consolidating School Districts?

Never mind. That’s the report from New Jersey School Boards Association based on remarks from Bret Schundler regarding “the centerpiece…

14 years ago