New Jersey School Boards Association just issued a report on the status of teacher contract negotiations in the state’s 579 school districts. Of the 211
There’s a new kind of fairy tale in the annals of those who denigrate efforts at education reform. It goes something like this: 1) Beleaguered
Here’s an official welcome to the new education blog in town, “New Jersey Education Aid.”The author, who goes by the moniker StateAidGuy, is a school
Dominique D. Lee, the founder and chief executive officer of Newark’s BRICK (Building Responsible Intelligent Creative Kids), has a great editorial in today’s NJ Spotlight
John Mooney asks, “All the stir about the state’s plans to relinquish control of Newark’s schools has raised a collateral question: What does all this mean
Last August New Jersey Monthly ran competing editorials by Bob Braun, former Star-Ledger editor and current ed reform-basher, and Jonathan Alter, political writer covering education,
This just out on NJ Advance Media: Researchers at the University of Arkansas studied 15 states, including New Jersey, and found that traditional public schools
From the Washington Post, which reports that “U.S. states’ education spending averaged $10,700 per pupil in 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, but that
“We got approval twice already. They are not likely to prevail,” she said. “We hope that the Hoboken Board of Education finally stops trying to
Here’s Louis Correro, a fourth-grader at Ethical Community Charter School in Jersey City, in today’s NJ Spotlight piece on N.J.’s charter school funding inequities: “Sadly,