Today’s Star-Ledger looks at the increasing cost of educating children with special needs in out-of-district placements, and districts’ efforts to create in-district classrooms. Fact from
The Trenton Times reports that the state fiscal monitor who oversees Trenton Public Schools told the School Board that there are “pervasive management problems in
The Trenton Times reports today that an audit of Trenton Public Schools revealed that the district has $1.9 million dollar deficit because “last summer the
A new bill on Gov. Corzine’s desk will create a 13-member reading disabilities task force that will study how best to educate students who have
Students who attend Edison High School should consider themselves lucky, even though their school is in its second year of a School In Need of
Let us build a law that demands real accountability tied to growth and gain in the classroom – rather than utopian goals – a law
Special education advocates continue to be alarmed by the broad powers granted to each county’s Executive County Superintendent (ECS). Originally, new DOE regulations seemed to
Thomas Carroll, President of he Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability, claims in yesterday’s New York Post that poor kids learn at the same rate
It’s the highest in the nation on a per pupil basis, about 1.6 times what we spend per general education kid. Why? In large part
About two weeks ago, Education Commissioner Lucille Davy sent a memo to N.J. superintendents and special education directors. The purpose of her memo was to