Cost estimate for Rutgers-UMDNJ-Rowan restructuring due Monday
By Jessica Calefati and Kelly Heyboer/The Star-Ledger […] Before the hearing, a coalition of the state’s health care unions…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Press release: Financial impact statement needed to evaluate higher education legislation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 14, 2012 MEDIA CONTACTS: Nat Bender, Communications Director American Federation of Teachers NJ (908) 377-0393….
Press release: Newark groups rally for continuation of healthcare and community services
MEDIA CONTACTS: Nat Bender, Communications Director American Federation of Teachers NJ (908) 377-0393 Cliff Freid, New Jersey Area Director…
Letter from Rutgers faculty warns proposed merger would ‘dismember’ university
By Patricia Alex. Staff Writer. The Record. A letter signed by more than 300 members of Rutgers faculty warns…
What’s needed to fix Rutgers
By Peter Simmons Especially pertinent in Sunday’s discussion of higher education in New Jersey (“The Rutgers shake-up: Why bigger is…
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…
Unions seek amendments in higher education bill
By Angela Delli Santi TRENTON — Labor unions representing faculty, staff, and others who would be affected by a…
After court ruling, Christie’s budget, higher-ed agenda needs Dems’ cooperation
By Juliet Fletcher […] Second is the governor’s proposed merger of higher education facilities, which was meant to be…
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