Effort to eliminate Rutgers Board of Trustees runs into roadblock
By Kelly Heyboer and Matt Friedman/ The Star-Ledger PISCATAWAY — State Senate President Stephen Sweeney’s attempt to pass a…
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Lacking Definitive Ruling on Affirmative Action, Both Sides Claim Victory
By John Schwartz and Richard Perez- Pena WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s decision to send a thorny affirmative action…
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Study: Charter schools are improving, but performance still close to public schools
By Jeanette Rundquist/The Star-Ledger Students in charter schools fared better than those in traditional public schools in some states…
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ACLU files lawsuit to block two NJ religious colleges from higher education bond money
By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger TRENTON — The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey filed a lawsuit today…
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Student Debt and Dwindling Public Resources for Higher Education Threaten Americans’ Access to College, AFT Report Finds
WASHINGTON—As education leaders across the nation are calling on Congress to act before July 1 to prevent student loan…
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Video: Krystal L. Woolston Sandy Service Week
Krystal leads a group of Montclair State University students in a service week house rehab in Keansburg, NJ. Superstorm…
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New Rutgers-Newark leader to be among highest-paid at university
By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor will take a major pay cut when she becomes…
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Controversial teacher prep ranking gives top grades to Kean, Rutgers-Camden, Seton Hall
By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger Kean University, Rutgers-Camden and Seton Hall University were among the schools earning top marks…
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Planned civil service changes irk N.J. state workers
Jane M Von Bergen, Inquirer Staff Writer. New Jersey public employees are bracing for what their union leaders say…
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Budget Cuts Reach Bone for Philadelphia Schools
By Trip Gabriel PHILADELPHIA — When a second grader came to the Andrew Jackson School too agitated to eat…
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How Corporate Greed Is Starving Our Public School System
The total cost of K-12 educational cutbacks in recent years is about equal to the amount of state taxes…
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Working Way Past 65
By Colleen Flaherty At the height of the financial crisis, it was unclear how diminished 401(k)s and general economic uncertainty would…
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