school funding

New Newsworks column: Don’t Blame Charters For Trenton Public Schools’ Budget Woes

It starts here:Last Friday Janice Williams, Grievance Chair of the Trenton Education Association, did us all a favor and cut…

10 years ago

New Newsworks column: N.J.’s School Funding Woes Extend to Preschools

It starts here:The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) just released its annual “State of Preschool Yearbook” and New…

10 years ago

Taking Pot Shots at N.J.’s Charter School Students

"The charter school law needs to be rewritten in a thoughtful, comprehensive way. It's been more than 20 years since…

10 years ago

If Asbury Park Public Schools Were Charters, They’d Be Shut Down Long Ago

Here’s a parent of a high school student enrolled at Asbury Park High School:"I am so done with that district,"…

10 years ago

New Newsworks column: N.J.’s School Funding Formula is as Broken as its Pension System

On Tuesday New Jersey Education Commissioner David Hespe had the hapless task of appearing before the Senate Budget Committee to…

10 years ago

U.S. DOE Rejects Colorado’s Request for Waiver for High Opt-Out Rates on Standardized Tests

Whither goes Colorado, so goes New Jersey?Chalkbeat reports that Colorado applied for a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education…

10 years ago

Statistic of the Day

While Jersey City spends $17,000 per student overall, the public school district gives their city’s charter schools only about $8,000…

10 years ago

NJSBA Prez: Hold Your Horses on Transferring State Health Care Premium Payments to School Districts

New Jersey School Boards Association President Larry Feinsod explains the association’s problem with Gov. Christie’s Pension and Health Benefits Study…

10 years ago

QOD: How much does N.J. spend per child per year?

From today's NJ Spotlight column:Statewide, New Jersey’s public schools are creeping ever closer to the $20,000 mark, with an average…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: The Charter School Approval Bottleneck at the N.J. D.O.E.

It starts here:Last week, the Paterson Charter School of Science and Technology held its annual enrollment lottery. There were 1,437…

10 years ago