Tweaking NJ’s Tenure Reform

All’s curiously quiet in the aftermath of Ed. Commissioner Christopher Cerf’s speech on Wednesday describing his five-part proposal for tenure reform. Sure, the leadership of

Here’s some Highlights

from Comm. Christopher Cerf’s speech on tenure reform, plus some comments from the panel comprising Senator Teresa Ruiz, Dan Weisberg of The New Teacher Project,

Cerf Gets Serious

This afternoon Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf gave a briefing on the Christie Administration’s five-part tenure reform proposal. Legislative language will be released in two weeks.

Cerf Tackles Tenure

This afternoon at 2:00 Acting Commissioner Christopher Cerf will give what’s being billed as a “major address” on education reform. According to the Star-Ledger, a

Primer on Christie’s Ed Reform Proposals

Gov. Christie’s State of the State speech was widely praised as diplomatic if short on specifics regarding education reform. Here comes the specifics, gleaned from

School Finance Fisticuffs

There’s a bit of a contretemps boomeranging around cyberspace between Mike Petrelli of the Fordham Institute and Flypaper and Bruce Baker of Rutgers and SchoolFinance101.

NJEA’s Luddism

Local school district referenda on school construction often serve as a barometer of the voters’ willingness to support costs of public education. If that truism

The Trouble with Seniority

There’s not many opportunities to use Trenton Public Schools as an exemplar, but the School Board and community wrangling over the fate of a popular

Cerf’s Up!

Now that Christopher Cerf is, for all practical purposes, our next Commissioner of Education, what will this mean for school reform prospects in NJ? First,

NJEA Reform Proposals Get Panned

Charles Stile of The Record: New Jersey’s embattled teachers union’s new “vision” for public education could best be summarized this way: “We’ve taken a hard