Advocacy Group to Monitor Reform Efforts in Public Schools
By Motoko Rich Diane Ravitch, the historian and former assistant education secretary who has become an outspoken critic of…
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Cerf Goes Public About Student Test Scores and Teacher Evaluations
At standing-room-only meeting of the state BOE, administration puts rough percentages to components of teacher ratings By John Mooney…
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Debt Payments Cast Shadow on Christie’s School-Aid Picture
While budget freezes or slightly boosts aid, state construction-grant assessments soar 60 percent By John Mooney New Jersey school…
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Making a difference every day Davis Hannah of Newark Teachers Union
Davis Hannah on Art Education
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National Attention and Cash in Los Angeles School Vote
By Jennifer Medina LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday, voters in Los Angeles will go to the polls for a…
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School vouchers, aid increase, included in Christie budget
By Jeanette Rundquist/The Star-Ledger TRENTON — Inside the nearly $9 billion that Gov. Chris Christie’s budget allocates for schools…
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Perth Amboy school board rescinds superintendent’s suspension
By Suzanne Russell […] Although some board members were surprised to see the suspension issue rescinded, Donna Chiera, president…
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Majority of NJ Schools Opt for Widely Used Teacher-Evaluation Method
Princeton-based consultant’s model is choice of 60 percent of districts as they prepare for tenure law’s new mandate By…
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Bill requiring daily recess for N.J. kids moves through Senate committee
TRENTON — A New Jersey legislative committee has pushed forward a bill that would require all New Jersey students…
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School Funding Formula Dispute May End In Budget Battle
The Christie administration has proposed changes to the School Funding Reform Act of 2008 that would adjust the state…
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Teacher Evaluation Regs Coming
Education Commissioner Chris Cerf said his department will begin to issue regulations on the implementation of the new TEACH…
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