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Asbury Park Union President Files Grievance Against District

Good Morning, Pursuant to my discussion with NJEA attorney Stephen Hunter, as well as NJEA Field Representative Tracie Yostpille, I…

3 years ago

New Report Grades New Jersey’s Teacher Prep, Evaluation, and Pay Policies

As we head into the final term of the 2020-2021 school year (and kick its butt on the way out…

4 years ago

When Union Power Goes Too Far: The Case of Sasha Latham

This piece is part of an ongoing series: Is the Teachers Union Too Powerful in New Jersey? Two years ago, with…

4 years ago

PARCC Part 2: Why, For the First Time in Five Years, Did Student Growth Stall?

Yesterday I reacted to the news, revealed during Wednesday’s State Board of Education meeting, that student achievement, as measured by…

5 years ago

What Sort of Teacher Union Leader Compares Teachers to Concentration Camp Prisoners? This One.

Last week I wrote a post called“Should Gov. Murphy Take Advice From Newark Teacher Union Prez John Abeigon on Charter…

6 years ago

Gov. Murphy Promised NJEA He’d “Get Rid of PARCC Day One.” Not So Fast, Say Those Who Value Honest Representations of Student Proficiency and School Quality.

Last week New Jersey Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet presented a  proposal to the State Board of Education to reduce the…

6 years ago

Are the Project Veritas/NJEA Videos an Anomaly or the Canary in the Coal Mine?

Last week at the Statehouse in Trenton, New Jersey legislators moved far beyond the usual debates about our education system.…

7 years ago

How Hard Is it To Dismiss Ineffective Teachers in Newark?

Analysts at the Fordham Foundation created a rubric for gauging the difficulty of firing ineffective teachers based on these three…

8 years ago