For the last month Trenton City Council President Kathy McBride has been refusing to allow the City Council to approve the school district budget because
To the surprise of the entire New Jersey State Legislature as well as school districts and school staff, the Murphy Administration’s reform bill intended to
This week former Senate President Steve Sweeney’s Center for Public Policy at Rowen University published a report that aims “to provide insights and inform the
Earlier this week, in a story about Jersey City Public Schools’ habit of giving large bonuses to central office administrators, I neglected a key piece
Today the Jersey Journal recounts that Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, perennially-hopeful gubernatorial candidate, is slamming the city School Board for raising taxes by $1,600
New Jersey’s 2022-23 state aid distribution is another big step towards state aid fairness. Thanks to the addition of $650 million of new K-12 operating
Last night the Jersey City Board of Education voted 5-4 to approve a new 2022-2023 budget. Last week members had expressed dismay at the district’s
Another migration study, another last-place finish for New Jersey. This time it’s a 2022 study by Hire A Helper that used data from moves, company surveys and
Jersey City and Lakewood’s public school districts couldn’t be more dissimilar. The former, New Jersey’s second largest district, educates 33,000 students—a mix of Black, white,
John Reitmeyer reports today on the rousing success of New Jersey’s 2 percent cap on municipal and school district tax increases, which has succeeded in