NJEA

NJEA Cancels Next Week’s Convention; Here’s Why It Should Cancel it Next Year Too

Note: Just as I was about to tweet this post, NJEA announced that is was cancelling next week's convention and…

12 years ago

Highlights from the NJ DOE’s Education Transformation Task Force Report

Yesterday the Christie Administration released the long-awaited the Education Transformation Task Force report. As NJ Spotlight reports, the 239-page report…

12 years ago

Quote of the Day

The Record Editorial Board praises NJEA and Gov. Christie’s willingness to “touch that third rail of politics” and agree to…

12 years ago

“Success has many fathers. Failure is an orphan.”

That's the nub of today's celebration at Von E. Mauger Middle School in Middlesex, about an hour from now, when…

12 years ago

Camden’s New Charter School District: Cause for Celebration or Litigation?

My piece today at WHYY's Newsworks looks at George Norcross's plans to open a charter school "Renaissance district" in Camden…

12 years ago

Camden’s Proposed KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy

Violent assaults, drug dealing, gang fights — sounds like a poorly run prison. But that’s what kids in Camden have…

12 years ago

Will Christie Sign the Tenure Reform Bill?

NJ Spotlight, the Star-Ledger, and PolitickerNJ are all reporting that Gov. Christie is injecting a bit of political theater into…

12 years ago

Playing “Who’s Your Daddy” Over Tenure Reform

In a press release issued yesterday after the NJ Assembly unanimously approved Sen. Ruiz's tenure reform bill, NJEA gloats,NJEA President…

12 years ago

NJ Tenure Reform Update

No doubt this is old news to many of you, but yesterday, in a vote of 40-0, the Senate approved…

12 years ago

Between the Lines At Yesterday’s Senate Hearing on Tenure Reform

All New Jersey eduwonks are consumed by yesterday’s  Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee meeting, where the committee heard supportive testimony…

12 years ago