Great piece from the Press of Atlantic City on South Jersey’s multiple itsy-bitsy school districts: Avalon budgeted nearly $40,000 to educate each of its 75
The Record’s Charles Stile profiles Senator Gerald Cardinale, Republican from Demerest, whose remarks on the Senator floor this week constituted “a racially tinged attack” which
The system for funding and operating our public schools is hopelessly wasteful: a fractured, Byzantine system that allows good money to be wasted on redundant
By any measure, New Jersey has one of the most segregated school systems in the country. We have to reopen that front. We have to
Home rule aside, if taxpayers want to see savings, good schools and maintain manageable class sizes, creating 21 school districts to match 21 counties is
James Ahearn of The Record on superintendent salary caps: Christie isn’t the first American governor to peg superintendent salaries to his own. Minnesota used to
The Asbury Park Press has this to say about school district consolidation: “it’s dead in the water, at least for now.” True enough. In 2007
Vince Giordano, the overpaid director of the state teachers union, sat at the witness table in a Senate committee room Monday and predicted doom and
What everyone knows – and few will admit – is that the only way to reduce property taxes in New Jersey is to cut the
Never mind. That’s the report from New Jersey School Boards Association based on remarks from Bret Schundler regarding “the centerpiece of 2007 legislation,” reducing the