Teacher tenure reform clears hurdle in Senate
[…] But rank-and-file teachers remain skeptical of the reform measure, said Donna M. Chiera, the New Jersey head of…
Teacher tenure overhaul clears N.J. Senate committee
By Leslie Brody. Staff Writer. The Record. A state Senate committee advanced a bill Monday to overhaul the century-old…
State Senate committee approves bill that links teacher tenure to performance
By Jeanette Rundquist/The Star-Ledger TRENTON — The first major change to New Jersey’s tenure law in a century, but…
N.J. Senate committee to discuss changes to teacher tenure
By Jessica Calefati/The Star-Ledger Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerState Senator Teresa Ruiz is shown in a 2010 file photo. Last week, Ruiz…
Newark needs more money to meet Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million challenge
By Jessica Calefati/The Star-Ledger NEWARK — With big money came big ideas — and that’s when it got complicated….
Home stretch for tenure
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board An epic overhaul of tenure may be the most important measure to come out of…
How to Honor Our Fathers
By Karen S. White The media talks a lot about women as the traditional family caregiver. But as we…
N.J. Assembly panel OKs teacher tenure bill; Senate bill amended
By Leslie Brody. Staff Writer. Shortly after the Assembly education committee passed a tenure bill Thursday afternoon, the senator…
Braun: Let ‘invisible’ Newark students help save their troubled schools
By Bob Braun/Star-Ledger Columnist NEWARK — They are faceless, voiceless. Often portrayed as victims or, worse, incompetents, young people…
Special Report: Can Newark’s Quitman Street School Be Saved?
After false starts and dashed hopes, the principal hopes this is Quitman’s turning point By Sara Neufeld Erskine Glover has…
Longer school days in the lesson plan for some N.J. districts?
By Matt Friedman/Statehouse Bureau David Gard/The Star-LedgerStudents and teachers in more than two dozen New Jersey school districts could have…
Christie Presses the Flesh — and His Case for Tenure Reform
Governor works town hall meeting, while legislators continue to work behind the scenes on two tenure reform bills By…
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