NJ senator urges committee to hold proposed college merger bill
By Patricia Alex. Staff Writer. The Record. Even as Governor Christie continued to push lawmakers to meet his June…
Squishy cost estimates dominate higher ed debate
By Charles Stile It’s not entirely accurate to say that legislators are on the brink of enacting a sweeping…
Rutgers: we will sue to stop plan
By Jason Method TRENTON — An attorney and member of the Rutgers University Board of Trustees will tell a…
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…
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