Quote of the Day

Ed Commish Chris Cerf on Gov. Christie’s comment to the Editorial Board of The Record that he’ll compromise with the New Jersey Education Association as

Score One for NJEA

Everyone’s covering Gov. Christie’s conditional veto of Senate Bill 1940, which posits that if a collective bargaining unit (i.e., local arm of a teachers union)

Great Public Servants or Political Thugs?

Here we go again. Gov. Christie tells Diane Sawyer that NJ’s teachers are “wonderful public servants who care deeply.” However, he remarks, NJEA executives are

Union Matters

Here’s Mike Antonucci at the Education Intelligence Agency on the national teacher union NEA’s battle against threats to collective bargaining and other lesser offensives like

Public Unions Go Postal

NJEA President Barbara Keshishian has a piece in the Star-Ledger today lambasting the Jersey paper for a general lack of support and for “ridicul[ing] NJEA’s

Teacher Incentives Bill

Assemblywoman Annette Quijano, a Democrat in Union, has introduced a two-bill package that would pay teachers more to work in low-performing school districts. From the

Quote of the Day

If there is one dominant trend during the past decade in terms of school elections, it is the growing clout of the New Jersey Education

Did You Get Your $6.8 Million Worth?

Lots of press on NJEA’s bill for lobbying last year: $6.8 million, far more than any other lobbying group in NJ. At about 200,000 members

“NJEA Sucks,”

says none other than Jay Lassiter at Blue Jersey. Barbara Keshishian is an ineffective leader who is doing infinitely more damage to public school students

NJEA as Stock Character

Here’s some tweets from NJEA’s twitter account, “stopthefreezenj” on the Interim Report issued by the NJ Education Effectiveness Task Force. @GovChristie crock of BS –