NJEA

How Hard Is it To Dismiss Ineffective Teachers in Newark?

Analysts at the Fordham Foundation created a rubric for gauging the difficulty of firing ineffective teachers based on these three…

8 years ago

Latino Parent Voices Are Ignored in Red Bank as NJEA Muffles Expansion Plans

Leaders of the New Jersey Education Association often profess disdain for public charter schools. But how far will they go…

8 years ago

N.J. Governor-to-Be Phil Murphy Proposes Insolvable/Insolvent Math Problem to NJEA Members

Accept my apology, dear readers, for forgoing my annual rant about the NJEA Convention, which takes place in Atlantic City…

8 years ago

Newark Parents Fight New Jersey’s Unjust and Immoral Teacher Lay-Off Law

The son of Newark mother Noemi Vazquez is one of 10 plaintiffs in a lawsuit called HG v. Harrington that…

8 years ago

QOD: Tom Moran asks, “Why is Phil Murphy Hostile to Charter Schools?” Answer: NJEA

Riffing off my piece earlier this week (hey, Tom, how about some attribution?) the editor of the Star Ledger notes…

8 years ago

Meet NJ’s Next Governor Who Will Vote For a National Charter School Moratorium on Saturday

Allow me to take a wild guess: New Jersey’s newly-anointed next governor Phil Murphy has never stepped foot in a…

8 years ago

Dissecting the Opt-Out Bubble: A Thorough Analysis

The Consortium for Policy Research in Education has just released a working paper called “The Bubble Bursts: The 2015 Opt-Out…

8 years ago

Here’s Why New Jersey’s School Aid Formula is Broken

Today the Star-Ledger marvels over the new Phillipsburg High School building, a "sprawling 326,000-square-foot school built atop a hill off…

8 years ago

Parsing NJEA’s Tax Filings & Considering NJ’s Fiscal State if Christie Wasn’t Governor

Jeff Bennett at New Jersey Education Aid asks this question: if Jon Corzine had won another term or Barbara Buono had…

8 years ago

Nine out of Ten of New Jersey’s Top High Schools Are School Choice Magnets

U.S. News and World Report just issued their annual list of America’s top 100 high schools and five of them…

9 years ago