school funding

QOD: NJ’s Expensive Superintendent Salary Caps

Lisa Wolff, President of the Hopewell Valley Regional School Board (Mercer County) explains how NJ’s "misguided" superintendent salary caps, intended…

12 years ago

Inequities in Charter School Funding

EdWeek reports today that, according to a a new study, charter schools in Newark receive $15,973 per pupil, $10,000 less…

12 years ago

Letter of the Day

From Joseph Del Grosso, President of the Newark Teachers Union: Dear Senator Rice and Assemblywoman Wagner: I am writing to you…

12 years ago

NJ DOE Releases New School Performance Reports

At long last the New Jersey Department of Education has released its “NJ School Performance Reports,” which replace the old…

12 years ago

Are NJ’s Superintendent Salary Caps a “Brain Drain?”

Gordon MacInnes, head of  NJ Policy Perspective and former honcho at the NJ Department of Education, is in a pet.…

12 years ago

Do NJ Kids Do Better in Private Special Education Schools?

A report commissioned by ASAH, the NJ consortium of private special education schools found that students in these out-of-district placements…

12 years ago

Ranking Disparities Among NJ’s Magnet/Vo-Tech Schools

Today's NJ Spotlight profiles the NJ DOE's annual list of the state's highest-performing "Reward" schools. According to our  waiver for…

12 years ago

Education Law Center Blasts Christie’s Proposed School Aid

Education Law Center has issued a press release condemning Gov.Christie’s proposed state school aid budget as “paltry,” “not keeping pace…

12 years ago

Today’s WHYY Post: Christie’s Proposed School Aid, 2014

My post today at WHYY's Newsworks  looks at the reaction of various interest groups -- school boards, teachers' union, principals…

12 years ago

NJEA is Out of Remission

The honeymoon’s over. After years of attacking Gov. Christie and his education agenda full throttle – and losing authority, gravitas,…

12 years ago