March 30, 2009 BY MEREDITH MANDELL NorthJersey.com PATERSON — Hundreds of angry students and teachers protested the Paterson school district’s proposed budget at JFK High School tonight, lambasting a $536 million plan that could result in school closings and the loss of dozens of positions.
March 27, 2009 Editorial The Star-Ledger We have reached a watershed moment for public school funding in New Jersey. After three weeks of hearings, a judge found Gov. Jon Corzine’s plan to overhaul the state aid formula meets the constitutional requirement to provide a “thorough and efficient” education for every student.
by Paul Mulshine The Star-Ledger The great H. L. Mencken famously observed that “A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.” He seems to have anticipated the antics of the New Jersey judiciary. Consider the very first line in the decision issued last week by the Honorable Peter E. Doyne in [...]
March 28, 2009 By TINA KELLEY The New York Times MILLBURN, N.J. — The high school here, which was named the state’s best by a respected magazine last year, plans to begin using dogs to search for drugs on campus this spring.
March 28, 2009 The Star-Ledger Editorial Board Kimberly Wright-White, principal of the Dr. William Horton School in Newark, said it was a “very powerful” moment when she and her staff realized that some of their K-8 students did not understand the purpose of their lessons.
March 29, 2009 By DIANE D’AMICO, Education Writer, 609-272-7241 The Press of Atlantic City The Buena Regional School District received a $3 million boost in state aid for 2008-09 thanks to a new school-funding formula, and will get almost $1 million more next year.
By CARL CAMPANILE The New York Post President Obama’s education czar is urging Albany to keep Mayor Bloomberg in control of New York City’s schools — citing “real progress” under Hizzoner and his handpicked chancellor, Joel Klein.
By YOAV GONEN, EDUCATION REPORTER The New York Post Charter-school teachers to their union: Butt out. The educators, at two city charter schools, have filed for permission from the state to cut their ties with the United Federation of Teachers. The action, at KIPP Academy in The Bronx and KIPP Infinity in Manhattan, came after [...]