school funding

QOD: “The Myth of Public Schools”

Matthew Yglesias  considers East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana, a wealthy neighborhood that wants  to secede from the local school…

11 years ago

Is School Funding Fair?

There’s a new report out called  Is School Funding Fair: A National Report Card  written by Prof. Bruce Baker of…

11 years ago

Sen. Sweeney: Let’s Cut that 2% School Tax Increase Cap Down to 0%

No, that was no slip of the tongue the other day: Sen. President Sweeney is serious about a zero tax…

11 years ago

Who Knew NJ Republicans Were So Gullible?

PolitickerNJ ran a good piece a couple of days ago on the collision of Christiegate with the lack of an…

11 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: A County-Wide Approach to Easing NJ’s De Facto School Segregation

Here's how it starts (minus some stats in the first paragraph): It’s an old problem: New Jersey has one of…

11 years ago

Just How Popular is School Choice in New Jersey? Too Popular for the Christie Administration.

Last week at WHYY Newsworks I wrote about the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program’s (IPSCP) growing pains, which have been…

11 years ago

Just How Pro-Choice is Christie’s Department of Education?

From my column today at WHYY's Newsworks:New Jersey has one of the most segregated public school systems in the country,…

11 years ago

Is Christie a Liar When He says that NJ is Spending More on Education than Ever Before?

There’s so many different ways to calculate cost per pupil, which accounts for much of the rhetoric tossed around by…

11 years ago

Has Abbott Funding “Helped Close the Gap in Test Scores”?

Today’s Business Section of the New York Times has an article by Eduardo Porter about the inequitable distribution of public…

11 years ago

New Newsworks post: Both Christie and Buono Lack Realistic Education Funding Plans

From today's WHYY Newsworks: The latest poll has Republican Gov. Chris Christie ahead of Democratic state Senator Barbara Buono by…

11 years ago