school funding

N.J. School Boards to Christie: Don’t Slough off Pension Contributions on Local Districts

New Jersey School Boards President Larry Feinsod reacts to Gov. Christie's pension and health benefits reform plan, specifically the proposal…

10 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: Time For NJEA to Seize the Microphone on Health Benefits, Pensions

It starts here:"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop," said pragmatist Herbert Stein, and the New Jersey public…

10 years ago

Parent Empowerment Drives Camden Education Reform

(Note: a modified version of this post appears at WHYY Newsworks.)On Tuesday evening, just before the start of the Camden…

10 years ago

Christie Celebrates “Historic Agreement” with NJEA; NJEA says “Not”

Gov. Christie gave his budget address yesterday afternoon and the big news was what he described as a “historic agreement”…

10 years ago

Trenton Public Schools Will Lay Off Forty-Seven Child Study Team Members

Trenton Public Schools announced this week that it will lay off 113 teaching positions in order to try to close…

10 years ago

Eva Moskowitz, Union Leaders, and Special Education

Today's  Wall Street Journal features an fiery editorial by Eva Moskowitz, founder of the widely-acclaimed Success Academy Charter Schools, about…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: N.J.’s Anti-Testing Bill is Really About Teacher Tenure

It starts here:New Jersey State Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan's (D-South Plainfield)  new opt-out-of-testing proposal, A-4165, guts the ability of parents, teachers,…

10 years ago

What’s Wrong with New Jersey’s Charter School Law?

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools released its sixth annual report this week that ranks state charter laws. (See…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: Christie Gives the Bird to a School Choice Program

It starts here:"It's a great program," says New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney.  It "meets an important need, and it…

10 years ago

New Jersey Crops that Rare Bird: A Universally Popular Public School Choice Program

New Jersey has never been the go-to state for public school choice. Our public school infrastructure consists of almost 600…

10 years ago