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…
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…
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…
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…
Arguing the Costs of Tuition Equality
A proposed measure would let all NJ students — regardless of immigration status — pay in-state tuition at state…
Bills aimed at making college cheaper for children of immigrants clear hurdle
By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal Two bills aimed at allowing illegal immigrants and the children of illegal immigrants…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Newark Super Calls for Pause in School Closures — For Now
Roseville Elementary and other troubled schools to be reevaluated to see which are most vulnerable By John Mooney Plans…
AFT Retirees Restructure
After Pam Hartkopf completed her last term as President, a change to the constitution created an eight-person board with…
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