Englewood Heroics
Laura Waters
March 18, 2009
All hail the Englewood School Board, which has courageously drawn a line in the sand between fiscal logic and inanity. North Jersey reports that negotiations
NJEA: Having it Both Ways
Laura Waters
February 26, 2009
North Jersey gives the NJEA’s boiler-plate response to Obama’s call for performance-based pay for teachers: Steve Baker, a spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association,
School Board Games
Laura Waters
February 18, 2009
Joe Albright of Jersey Journal wonders aloud whether Senate President Dick Codey is “running out the clock” on legislation that would move school board elections
Teacher Pay Palaver
Laura Waters
February 17, 2009
The lead article in the Star-Ledger today says that the economic recession is slightly influencing teacher contract talks, but not without some blowback by the
It’s the NJEA, Stupid
Laura Waters
February 17, 2009
The Beacon, a weekly paper in Lambertville (Hunterdon County), praises two local school districts for freezing administrators’ salaries for the coming year. Lambertville Public School
Salvaging the DOE
Laura Waters
February 5, 2009
As the new data from the N.J. State Report Cards makes the rounds, the DOE is caught in the unenviable position of defending uneven test
High School Redesign Undermined
Laura Waters
February 3, 2009
New Jersey’s High School Redesign Steering Committee recently issued a set of newly rigorous requirements for public school diplomas. This effort is part of Corzine
NJEA Fairy Tale
Laura Waters
February 2, 2009
You’ve got to hand it to Michael Winerip of the New York Times. Once a hard-hitting reporter on beats like inner-city poverty – think Jonathan
Roxbury Settlement
Laura Waters
January 30, 2009
If you want a sense of the zeitgeist in New Jersey regarding teacher salaries, there’s no better barometer than the public reaction to the recent
Davy to the Rescue
Laura Waters
January 23, 2009
While New Jersey’s economy sinks and public school districts struggle to put together budgets without any certainty about State aid numbers, Education Commissioner Lucille Davy