Senators in Both Parties Agree: States Must Do More for Higher Education
By Eric Kelderman Congressional hearings often feature bitter partisanship and acrimonious finger pointing. But there was mostly agreement on…
Legislator, locals object to Gov. Christie’s executive order on Common Core
By Andrea Hughes, Managing Editor, The Item of Millburn and Short Hills Slight changes are in store for New…
Newark Civil-Rights Probe Mirrors Investigations in Other U.S. Cities
By John Mooney Administration, state-appointed superintendent, will cooperate but keep low profile for time being The federal civil-rights investigation…
Fine Print: DOE Details Teacher Evaluation After Christie Compromise
By John Mooney Summer training and deadlines for schools following Christie rollback on use of student test scores in…
Newark parents cheer federal investigation into controversial school plan
By Peggy McGlone, The Star-Ledger NEWARK — The U.S. Department of Education is investigating whether Newark’s school reorganization plan…
Labor solidarity in Montclair
AFT Local 1904 members (Rich Wolfson, Ken Brook, Bill Sullivan) supporting trade union brothers and sisters at the demonstration…
CD 5 race: AFT endorses Dem Cho against GOP’s Garrett
By Mark Bonamo RIDGEWOOD – The American Federation of Teachers New Jersey (AFTNJ) has announced its endorsement of Roy Cho…
Hespe Helps Take Hearsay Out of Newark ‘Working Group’
By John Mooney In one of his first public statements, acting commissioner details plans and purpose for working group,…
College of New Jersey’s ‘Campus Town’ development beginning to take shape
By Brendan McGrath, The Times of Trenton EWING — Campus Town, the $86 million private-public project that will bring…
NJIT, TCNJ among costliest colleges in the nation, new ranking reveals
By Kelly Heyboer, The Star-Ledger NEWARK — New Jersey Institute of Technology and the College of New Jersey have…
Possibility of compromise slows action on Common Core
By Rita Giordano, Inquirer Staff Writer Gov. Christie as Henry Clay? Next week may tell. Based on the likelihood…
Press release: AFTNJ Endorses Candidates for General Election
Contact: Nat Bender, nbender [@] aftnj.org, 908-377-0393 Education workers union backs pols with strong labor and education credentials EDISON…The…
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