Quote of the Day

Today’s New York Times on new DOE data that shows that minority students, especially black boys, face harsher discipline measures in school than whites. “According

Out-Of-District Placements in Trenton

This morning’s Trenton Times highlights a new initiative from Trenton Public Schools to try to lessen the expense of educating children with disabilities. Currently Trenton

NJ’s Special Education Inequities

The Record has a two-part piece (here and here) on a new trend among NJ school districts: serving students with disabilities within the public system

NJ Special Ed Funding Verdict: Broken

The NJ State DOE has just released a report commissioned by Denver-based Augenblick Palaich and Associates (APA), which seeks to answer the question, does the

Winerip the Manichaean

Poor Michael Winerip, every ed reformer’s favorite punching bag. The long-time New York Times columnist plods the Gotham edu-beat like clockwork each Monday morning, juxtaposing

Special Ed Zugzwang in Moorestown

An interesting special education case blew through the transom this week, Moorestown Board of Education v. S.D. and C.D. on behalf of M.D. M.D. is