NJEA

KIPP NJ Students Teach Us How To “Be The Change”

Last Wednesday KIPP New Jersey hosted the 10th annual “Be the Change” celebration, its primary fundraising initiative. By the end…

8 years ago

Newark Mom on LIFO Lawsuit: “I’m Just a Parent Who Wants To Make A Change”

Earlier this month, a short animated video was released to the public explaining New Jersey’s quality-blind “last in, first out”…

8 years ago

Here’s What’s Wrong With NJEA’s Strategy To Unseat Senate President Steve Sweeney

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this week that the New Jersey Education Association just launched a full-scale attack against long-time Democratic…

8 years ago

“We Will Live By Choice and Not By Chance!”

This credo -- "we will live by choice and not by chance"  echoed through Trenton’s Masonic Hall  on Monday morning…

8 years ago

School Funding Drinking Game: Count Those Proposals!

I curled up in front of CNN on the evening of November 8th, cozied by a glass of wine and…

8 years ago

What’s Wrong With N.J.’s Teacher Pension System? Ask Your Nearest Millennial

A new teacher’s pension is supposed to be a perk. The truth is that for the majority of the nation’s…

8 years ago

Guest Post:The Taxpayer-Funded One-Percenters of NJEA

At an August 8, 2016, protest in Trenton organized by New Jersey’s largest teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association…

8 years ago

White Suburban Parents Protest Educational Rights of Black Urban Parents

Look at this picture. What do you see? A group of (almost all) white suburban people in front of the…

8 years ago

NJEA Front Office Staff Pensions Are Secure. Regular Teachers? Not so Much.

The New Jersey Teachers Pension and Annuity Fund (TPAF) will be drained dry on June 30th, 2027, about eleven and…

8 years ago

Newsflash: Bruce Baker Analyzes Charter School Expansion and I’m Impressed

I am typically a fierce critic of Professor Bruce Baker but this week I find myself in the delightful position…

8 years ago