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…
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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…
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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….
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Home stretch for tenure
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board An epic overhaul of tenure may be the most important measure to come out of…
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How to Honor Our Fathers
By Karen S. White The media talks a lot about women as the traditional family caregiver. But as we…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Average price of 4-year university up 15 percent
Associated Press. When those college tuition bills come in, be prepared for sticker shock. The average cost of attending…
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Endgame on tenure
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board Sen. Teresa Ruiz has been working for more than two years to find agreement on…
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