school funding

Lakewood Gets a Fiscal Monitor

Yesterday NJ Spotlight   reported on the sorry fiscal condition of Lakewood Public Schools (Ocean County). On Friday Commissioner David Hespe…

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Trenton’s Next Mayor and the City’s Schools

I covered Saturday's mayoral forum for WHYY Newsworks: At the mayoral forum Saturday morning "Setting Trenton's Education Agenda," sponsored by…

11 years ago

Newark Charter Schools Chief Finds Common Ground with Student Protestors

Ryan Hill, founder of TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, responds to yesterday's student protest against Cami Anderson’s One Newark plan:"There…

11 years ago

Q’sOD: Camden Superintendent Rouhanifard on Pending Staff Lay-Offs

Camden Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard announced last night that the district would lay off 400 staff members in order to close…

11 years ago

New School Funding Proposal

Mayor Dave Fried of Robbinsville (Mercer County) has nothing good to say about NJ’s system of dividing up state aid…

11 years ago

NJ DOE Double-Dippers Amidst NJ’s Pension Woes

Speaking of salaries, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports on an investigation from New Jersey Watchdog that found that an obscure unit…

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New Bill Would Eliminate NJ Superintendent Salary Caps

Here’s big news for school boards and superintendents: Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan  (D-Middlesex) has filed a bill that would bar the…

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Newark Public Schools Responds to “Critique” of Charter/Traditional Collaboration Plan

This past January Bruce Baker ( Rutgers prof. and anti-reform blogger) and Mark Weber (Baker’s Ph.D. student and anti-reform blogger)…

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New WHYY Post: NJ School Funding, NJEA, and Christie’s Grim Pension Prognosis

 On Tuesday a gloomy Chris Christie donned a hair shirt instead of a fleece jacket and proffered his 2015 fiscal-year…

11 years ago

Sweeney Promises Further Education Reforms as He Eyes 2017 Gubernatorial Bid

Here's my new WHYY Newsworks column: Fort Lee is no longer on gridlock alert, but suddenly New Jersey's efforts towards…

11 years ago