Things Fall Apart, The Center Cannot Hold

According to New Jersey Newsroom, the NJDOE missed a “self-imposed deadline” of 5 p.m. yesterday to turn over to Senator Barbara Buono documents related to

Is the Third Time the Charm?

Seven hours of Legislative hearings yesterday about New Jersey’s Race To The Top bonk resulted in old news: the Department of Education has smart people

RTTT Theater at 10

Here’s a shocker: the new Rasmussen poll shows that “eighty percent (80%) of New Jersey voters have been following news of the education grant loss

Dialogue of the Day

Former New Jersey governors Brendan T. Byrne and Tom Kean in the Star-Ledger on the prospects of legislative hearings and other RTTT matters: BYRNE: Children

Quote of the Day

NJ’s Race To The Top debacle continues to make national headlines, including in Salon. From Salon’s political news writer, Stever Kornacki: It’s pretty obvious what

Once Again: Why We Lost RTTT

Everyone’s still gorging on the Race To The Top/Schundler/Christie remainders but let’s ignore for just a moment the mass media conviction that the entire mess

Sunday Leftovers

We’re all of-a-theme today as NJ roils and reddens over the increasingly embarrassing set of circumstances surrounding our narrow loss in the federal Race To

More RTTT Detritus of the Day

NJ Spotlight has a great precis on RTTT reviewers’ comments, and also explains why Reviewer 3 took such a shine to us. New Jersey Newsroom

Why We Lost Race To The Top

From the reviewers’ comments: Reviewer 1: “While much of the New Jersey proposal is strong, one important fact makes it unlikely to succeed. 49.9% of

Red Herrings and RTTT

Everyone from the Star-Ledger Editorial Board to 101.5 to Senator Steve Sweeney is atwitter over the fact that our Race To The Top application omitted