NJEA

The Consolidation Cha-Cha

Now that Executive County Superintendents have been ordered by the DOE to issue reports by March 2010 for consolidation of…

16 years ago

Dancing Lemons

School Watch, the policy arm of the Excellent Education for Everyone think tank, has issued a fulminating report on the…

16 years ago

Trendspotting Merit Pay and Charter Schools

Today’s Wall St Journal features a letter from Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, and…

16 years ago

NJEA’s “Outrageous Statement”

In “The Monopolist Turns Free-Marketer,” Gregg Edwards describes the new legislation that establishes a program for low-income kids in seven…

16 years ago

Teacher Tenure

All of a sudden, teacher job tenure, typically the third rail of education politics, is a heightened topic for discussion.…

16 years ago

School Board Election Bill Barely Passes Committee

PolitickerNJ reports that the Senate Education Committee voted 3-2 this afternoon in favor of S-1861, the bill that would move…

16 years ago

Is It Time to Trade Up to a Better Model?

Here’s two “must-reads” for you. Andrew Rotherham, who runs the thinktank Education Sector and blogs on Eduwonk, has a piece…

16 years ago

Star-Ledger Advocates Merit Pay

The Star-Ledger gets behind merit pay for teachers in today's editorial, arguing that the typical union denunciation -- that a…

16 years ago

Aides Over Kids?

The State Assembly Education Committee is expected to release a new bill, A-420, which gives job protection to paraprofessionals employed…

16 years ago

Change We Can Believe In

It’s mid-November, so it must be time for the NJEA Teacher Convention! A week after school board members partied in…

16 years ago