State Test Scores Reveal Some Gains, Widening Achievement Gap
Budget cuts cost New Jersey school districts $1 billion, with some of the poorest districts paying the biggest price…
SUNY Official Resigns Over Charter Issue
Professor Says School Policy Is Unclear By Lisa Fleisher A prominent academic has resigned from the State University of…
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February 1, 2012 Timely reminders, fabulous freebies, best sites & more “worth the surf” In This Issue Grants, Competitions…
Weingarten Urges Activism and Advocacy in New Jersey
Adrienne Coles, AFT As the New Jersey legislative session was set to begin, AFT president Randi Weingarten took some…
Amid ‘Turnaround Agenda, Teachers, Communities Overshadowed by Corporate Reforms
Michelle Chen The conversation about school reform in Washington is replete with big ideas — glossy proposals for “accountability,”…
Rutgers’ urban bias gives Newark campus short shrift
By Steven J. Diner Public policy discussion regarding the future of older cities has increasingly focused on the role…
Finger-Pointing Precedes Teacher Contract Talks in Newark
With negotiations resuming, union, superintendent at odds over plans for troubled schools By John Mooney The last time negotiators…
States weaken teacher tenure rights
Kimberly Hefling, The Associated Press WASHINGTON – America’s public school teachers are seeing their generations-old tenure protections weakened as…
Christie Takes His School Reform Message to Irvington Church
[…] But then there was Vivian Prescott, a 63-year old Newark native and teacher’s aide of nearly 40 years…
Department of Education approves 8 new charter schools, 2 in Newark
By Jessica Calefati/The Star-Ledger Applications were approved today for eight new charter schools that will open in September in…
For Christie, 2012 Is the Year to Act on Education Reform — Again
Teacher tenure gaining traction among lawmakers as debates on education continue to swirl By John Mooney, January 18, 2012…
Presidential search committee named at New Jersey City University
By The Jersey Journal A presidential search committee has been appointed at New Jersey City University to find a…
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