Just when the Governor and the leadership of NJEA appeared to be mending some fences over issues like tenure reform and the Urban Hope Act,
One other education bill looks likely to pass through the NJ State Legislature at its last session on Monday: the Urban Hope Act. It’s undergone
According to a Star-Ledger poll, New Jerseyans favor the passage of the Opportunity Scholarship Act by a margin of 57.18% to 42.82%. OSA would offer
The Star-Ledger’s PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter decided to rate a statement uttered by Save Our Schools-NJ’s spokesperson, Julia Sass Rubin, who is lobbying hard against the Opportunity
From In The Lobby: There’s been plenty of talk about the Assembly’s so-called “Gang of Thirteen”, the Democrat progressives who were said to be considering
We’re well into the lame duck session of the NJ State Legislature and, while there’s still hope for passage of education reform bills, the clock
The highly-regarded Brookings Institute has a new study out today which grades 13 cities on the “critical role of school choice.” NJ’s cities aren’t on
New Jersey’s application to the Feds for a waiver from the strictures of No Child Left Behind includes a wishlist of legislative bills that would
One tiny piece of charter legislation passed the Senate yesterday: Bill S1858, which allows parochial schools to convert to public charters, with the condition that
Rev. Reginald Jackson’s rebuttal to Gordon MacInnes has now been posted at NJ Spotlight. To recap, Mr. MacInnes begins his op-ed by criticizing NJEA, the