tenure

Want Some More Tea With Your Sugar?

Lots of coverage today as NJEA released its reform proposals: check out the Star-Ledger (which focuses on the Christie Administration’s…

14 years ago

Quality-Blind Lay-Offs

Sometime this afternoon, NJEA promises, it will unveil its blueprint for reforming our outdated tenure laws and using student growth…

14 years ago

Standing Up the NJEA

Everyone’s atwitter over Education Commissioner Rochelle Hendricks’ letter to NJEA President Barbara Keshishian in which she declines to attend the…

14 years ago

Desperately Seeking Logic

Yesterday in Old Bridge Governor Christie laid out the planks of his education reform platform. Here are his six initiatives,…

14 years ago

Quote of the Day

Shavar Jeffries, chairman of the Newark Public Schools Advisory Board, in the Star-Ledger:Tenure reform is indispensable, largely because the evidence…

14 years ago

NJEA and Schundler Embrace Ed Reform?

Word’s out: Ed. Comm. Schundler and NJEA’s Barbara Keshishian and Vince Giordano made a deal, and local bargaining units will…

14 years ago

We Pay Teachers Too Little

Lots of coverage over the last few days regarding staff compensation in school districts. Yesterday’s Star-Ledger, for example, features an…

15 years ago

Schundler Presents NJ’s Race To The Top Application

Bret Schundler is taking Arne Duncan at his word. The U.S. Education Secretary told states recently that the Race to…

15 years ago

Charter School Oppositional-Defiant Disorder

We’re sensing an energetic focus in the media on problems endemic to teacher tenure. From today’s New York Times:[I]n the…

15 years ago

We’re in receipt of a memo from NJEA,

dated yesterday, which itemizes its objections to new recommendations from Gov. Christie's transition subcomittees regarding pension and educational reforms. (Sorry:…

15 years ago