50 briefly occupy N.J. Department of Education lobby to protest charter schools
By Christopher Baxter/Statehouse Bureau TRENTON — Protesters angry about the Christie administration’s charter school initiatives briefly occupied the lobby…
Rutgers thaws pay freeze for selected non-union employees
Nic Corbett/The Star-Ledger NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University is giving raises and holiday bonuses to less than one-fifth of…
No time is being wasted creating Rutgers medical school
Nic Corbett/The Star-Ledger NEW BRUNSWICK — Although there’s been no official order, it’s full steam ahead in planning for…
The Opportunity Scholarship Act would be funded directly from public school budgets.
The Truth-O-Meter Says: “(The Opportunity Scholarship Act) would be funded directly from public school budgets. So it would absolutely…
UMDNJ president submits resignation
By Nic Corbett/The Star-Ledger NEWARK — William F. Owen Jr., the president of the University of Medicine and Dentistry…
Cash-strapped professors at Rutgers learn to do without, in world of state aid cuts and bad economy
By Jarrett Renshaw/Statehouse Bureau Andrew Mills/The Star-LedgerA sparse crowd settles in early in the second quarter at Rutgers Stadium…
NJIT faculty members want more involvement in search for new president
By Nic Corbett/The Star-Ledger NEWARK — As the New Jersey Institute of Technology searches for a new president, faculty…
Braun: New kind of N.J. school privatization on the rise
By Bob Braun/Star-Ledger Columnist Robert Sciarrino/The Star-LedgerActing Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf, right, listens as Gov. Chris Christie speaks in…
‘We wuz wrong again?’
When it comes to providing financial information to the U.S. Department of Education, New Jersey doesn’t seem to have,…
Raritan Valley Community College professors concerned about possible pay freeze
By Eugene Paik/The Star-Ledger BRANCHBURG — If Raritan Valley Community College has its way in a labor dispute with…
Despite success on the field, big-spending Rutgers athletics is saddled with its largest deficit ever
Jarrett Renshaw/Statehouse Bureau TRENTON — It was a sea of scarlet. Rutgers University’s newly expanded football stadium was jammed…
NJ has better things to invest in than corporate tax breaks
[…] There is a better strategy to create jobs using scarce public resources. The state ought to be investing…
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