Lots of coverage over the last few days regarding staff compensation in school districts. Yesterday’s Star-Ledger, for example, features an analysis of teacher compensation across
According to New Jersey Newsroom, the Christie Administration wants to encourage school districts to merge or at least agree to have one set of administrators
The New York Times education writer, Winnie Hu, had no trouble in Saturday’s paper distinguishing some of NJ’s wealthy and high-performing school districts from our
Home rule is a very big cow and it’s time it either produced a beverage or became an entrée. Next week, Christie delivers his budget
NJEA gave us plenty of warning that it would advise its local bargaining units to toss N.J.’s Race To The Top application (here’s the full
I think all schools should be funded through the state. New Jersey needs to get away from home rule. We can’t afford home rule anymore.
Today’s Trenton Times features an editorial by Dr. James Deneen, an ETS program director, and Dr. Carmen Cantanese, a former VP at Sarnoff, who highlight
Bob Ingle explains it all: With 566 municipalities in New Jersey (California has only 480), 603 school districts (more than the states of Maryland, Delaware
Mr. Corzine left his audience with one plea, to embrace consolidation and shared services at the local level. He said the state’s population of 8.5
If we are to ultimately control the cost of government . . . we are going to have to deal with the issue of consolidation