home rule

$27K Per Kid and It’s Not Even An Abbott District

What better advertisement for school district consolidation than the Pascack Valley area of Bergen County comprising four little towns, Montvale,…

15 years ago

On N.J. Public Education: “We’re spending enough to buy a Lincoln Town Car, but we’re actually getting a Ford Taurus.”

That's Gregg Edwards, President of Center for Policy Research of New Jersey, editorializing on a 2004 analysis from the Manhattan…

15 years ago

Let’s Do The Time Warp Again

Two more Jersey towns are feeling ripped off by their school costs, reports The Record. Woodcliff Lake and Montvale in…

15 years ago

N.J.’s Use of ARRA Funds

The Campaign for Educational Equity based at Teachers College, Columbia University, has published an analysis of each state’s application for…

15 years ago

Morris and Ocean County Consolidation

School district consolidation recommendations are in from Morris and Ocean counties, but don’t hold your breath. The Star-Ledger reports that…

15 years ago

Education Reform in the Soprano State

Can we finally agree that a primary source of N.J.’s woes – both political and educational – flows from the…

15 years ago

Why Not Make Our Great Preschools County-Wide?

Governor Jon Corzine and Education Commissioner Lucille Davy are touting the results of a new study called "The APPLES Blossom:…

15 years ago

Quotes of the Day

To permanently lower property taxes in New Jersey, communities need to break away from the sense of home rule entitlement…

15 years ago

Mulshine the Ethicist: Corzine and Non-Operating Districts

Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine has an answer to our question on why Corzine would eliminate non-operating districts five months before…

15 years ago

A Preschool Proposal

The stakes are high: if New Jersey doesn’t provide free public preschool to all poor children, then it has violated…

15 years ago