Yesterday’s Star-Ledger editorial defined the essential problem with back-room negotiations regarding Sen. Teresa Ruiz’s tenure reform bill: while the earlier versions eliminated tenure protection for
In today’s Star-Ledger, the Editorial Board considers the rift between New Jersey Republicans and Democrats on education reform — particularly the controversial practice of protecting
Check out my new post at WHYY’s Newsworks, which deals with the politics of tenure reform, particularly the recent hedging of the NJ Senate Education
A survey just released by Scholastic Education and the Gates Foundation (hold your fire!) interviewed 10,000 pre-K through 12th grade public school teachers about, among
Tomorrow morning at 11 I’ll be discussing tenure reform and teacher evaluations with Joseph Cheff, President of the Passaic County Education Association and NJSBA host,
Two separate items crossed my monitor this weekend: first, an editorial/ad that ran in Sunday’s New York Times Sunday Review section by AFT President Weingarten.
This past Friday NJ Spotlight hosted a Roundtable in Monroe on the new teacher evaluation pilot program, now underway in 11 districts and due for
Here’s a couple of excerpts from New Jersey School Boards Association’s testimony to the Senate Education Committee yesterday on Sen. Teresa Ruiz’s tenure reform bill.
It was quite the scene at the Statehouse Annex yesterday as the Senate Education Committee heard public testimony on Sen. Teresa Ruiz’s tenure reform bill,
Tweet from “Stop The Freeze NJ,” the facebook site devoted to “defending public education in NJ”: “Tenure bill going to committee on Monday. Spread the