Corzine and Davy Change Their Minds
Laura Waters
December 7, 2009
The NJ DOE announced this afternoon that it will indeed apply by January 19th for the competitive first round of Race To The Top stimulus
Race To The Top Detritus
Laura Waters
December 4, 2009
Senators Tom Kean and Diane Allen, both members of the Senate Education Committee, expressed “disappointment” that N.J. “is woefully unprepared to apply for federal Race
Newsflash: N.J. Won’t Make the Jan. RTTT Deadline
Laura Waters
December 2, 2009
The Record is reporting that New Jersey will not make the January 19th deadline for the first round of Race To The Top funds. A
Can N.J. Get Real About Race To The Top?
Laura Waters
December 2, 2009
Thomas Carroll, President of the Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability, has a piece in the New York Post on why New York State will
Quote of the Day
Laura Waters
November 25, 2009
Already the administration is being pressured to dilute [Race To The Top’s] requirement that states adopt performance pay for teachers and to weaken its support
N.J.’s Score on Data Quality
Laura Waters
November 25, 2009
The Data Quality Campaign has posted its Annual Progress Report on State Data Systems, which measures each state’s development of robust longitudinal data systems to
Assemblyman Joe Cryan on Corzine’s loss: “We had NJEA and CWA in our corner and we still got smoked.”
Laura Waters
November 23, 2009
That’s the humble pie bubbling up during NJSBA’s Lame Duck Legislature Update on Saturday morning. Featured players were Michael Vrancik, NJSBA Director of Governmental Relations,
NJSBA’s Song of Itself
Laura Waters
November 18, 2009
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” The New Jersey School
Jersey’s Charter School Facilities Funding and RTTT
Laura Waters
November 13, 2009
Peter Murphy at The Chalkboard speculates that New York State will be deemed ineligible for Race To The Top money because its charter school facilities
Whither Goes Jersey Education Policy in the Wake of Christie’s Victory?
Laura Waters
November 4, 2009
First, a contest: who can name the next Commissioner of Education? Post your thoughts, please. The only clues we have is that Christie vowed during