Braun: N.J. deputy education commissioner’s role in pro-charter school group a conflict of interest
By Bob Braun/Star-Ledger Columnist The so-called revolving door between government and lobbying organizations is a familiar fact of political…
Student activism lauded
Student activism has a way of working sometimes. We like what the participants in Wednesday night’s “Take Back The…
Montclair State full-time local at Occupy Wall Street
Friday morning faculty and students from Montclair went to Zuccotti Park to deliver the unanimous resolution that Local 1904…
Maplewood, Montclair Represent at ‘Occupy Wall Street’
On Friday morning, Oct. 14, faculty and students from Montclair State University traveled to Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan…
Charter Anxiety: A Suburban Malady?
As backlash grows in the suburbs, the reaction in the cities is more complicated By John Mooney, October 14…
Hundreds gather in hearing on UMNDJ merger with Rutgers to speak out against proposed plan
Nic Corbett/The Star-Ledger AP Photo/Mel EvansThe University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark in a 2005…
N.J. Senator wants to update state laws to make charter schools more accountable
Jessica Calefati/The Star-Ledger Cie Stroud/For The Star-Ledger Sen. Teresa Ruiz, Chair of the Senate Education Committee, plans to introduce…
Health care rates to rise for NJ public workers
BY JULIET FLETCHER, State House Bureau State, local and public school employees will see their existing health premium costs…
Rutgers One Delivers 6,000-Plus Petition Calling on University to Pay Frozen Wage
McCormick Public Statements Ring Hollow as Rutgers Workers Lag Behind Rest of State NEWARK…Rutgers workers have gone the longest…
Search for new Rutgers president begins amid flap over employee pay freeze
At today’s Board of Governors meeting in Newark, professors and other union members holding protest signs reminded the panel…
Vigil of Concern: “People are Hurting”
A small but determined group of local citizens gathered Monday night in Little Falls to support the “Occupy Wall…
State’s raft of health plan choices includes high-deductible coverage
Beth Fitzgerald On Wednesday, the State Health Benefits Commission will meet to consider a new set of health plans…
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