Tweety-Bird
Laura Waters
May 31, 2011
Over the long Memorial Day weekend, reports The Quick and the Ed, a tweet from twitter-fan Diane Ravitch went viral and misconstrued a 2007 paper
Supreme Court Releases School Funding Ruling
Laura Waters
May 24, 2011
The NJ Supreme Court released its ruling today regarding whether the State violated the constitutional rights of children residing in our 31 poorest school districts
Quote of the Day
Laura Waters
April 28, 2011
On the high percentage of school budgets passed yesterday by residents, NJ School Boards Association Frank Belluscio said, It is a much calmer year than
Inadequacies of Adequacy Formulas
Laura Waters
March 29, 2011
Check out today’s NJ Spotlight for an examination of the basis for Judge Peter Doyne’s ruling in the ongoing saga of NJ’s school funding: NJ’s
Christie’s School Aid Cuts Take It On The Chin
Laura Waters
March 23, 2011
While Judge Peter Doyne’s ruling on the constitutionality of Gov. Christie’s cuts to school aid may not be Shakespeare, it’s rich with the political subtexts
Charter Funding Inequity
Laura Waters
February 8, 2011
Bellweather Education Partners has a new report out today called “Location, Location, Location: How would a high-performing charter school network fare in different states?” Authors
School Funding Myopia
Laura Waters
February 2, 2011
Yesterday the NJ State Supreme Court announced that the State cannot use evidence of the current fiscal crisis to justify cuts in education aid to
Rethinking School Funding
Laura Waters
January 28, 2011
We’ll take it on faith that the reporter for this Trenton Times story didn’t write the headline – “School Districts Sitting on Millions.” The bucks
NJ DOE Warns Districts of Potential State Aid Cuts
Laura Waters
January 26, 2011
Yut’se Thomas, Acting Assistant Commissioner, writes in a memo to superintendents and business administrators, For purposes of developing your preliminary budgets, districts should make allowances
New Report Out Rates School District Productivity
Laura Waters
January 20, 2011
A new report out from the Center for American Progress calculates the return on investment (ROI) for most districts within each state based on the