April 29, 2009 BY KRISTEN ALLOWAY Star-Ledger Staff High court hears arguments on school funding In a hearing that featured some pointed questioning, the New Jersey Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday on whether it should end the long-running Abbott vs. Burke school funding case that has sent billions of dollars to the state’s poorest communities [...]
April 29, 2009 By JOSEPH GIDJUNIS Courier-Post Staff The city’s school board approved the elimination of 25 staff members and 68 position vacancies to balance the budget, which is $7 million short of last year’s total. Among the staff cuts are 11 custodians, six health and physical education teachers, three other teachers, two clerks, one [...]
April 28, 2009 BY KATHLEEN CARROLL NorthJersey.com STAFF WRITER The Abbott program is a crucial lifeline for students in New Jersey’s poorest cities. Or it’s the last, unnecessary remnant of an unfair school funding system that Governor Corzine replaced last year.
Lori Unterkoefler Guest Blog At every college in America, freshmen are required to take two semesters of Composition or “First Year Writingâ€. The class is virtually inescapable, even to students who completed AP English. And the very first day of writing class, most freshmen in most colleges in America are asked to write a “diagnostic†[...]
April 28, 2009 The Washington Post A Supreme Court case highlights a question: Why deny D.C. children what special-needs students get? THE SUPREME COURT will hear arguments today about the use of public money for the private schooling of children with special needs. It’s interesting to note what’s not at issue: namely, that when a [...]
April 26, 2009 by Mike Thomas | COMMENTARY OrlandoSentinel.com I’ve had little success selling Jeb Bush’s education reforms to my liberal friends and colleagues. So I am trying something new. I’m calling them Barack Obama’s education reforms. It took Nixon to go to China, and it could take Obama to bring school reform to Democrats.
Too talented for public schools. Here’s a quiz: Which of the following rejected more than 30,000 of the nation’s top college seniors this month and put hundreds more on a waitlist? a) Harvard Law School; b) Goldman Sachs; or c) Teach for America. If you’ve spent time on university campuses lately, you probably know the [...]
April 22, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The New York Times Speaking of financial crises and how they can expose weak companies and weak countries, Warren Buffett once famously quipped that “only when the tide goes out do you find out who is not wearing a bathing suit.†So true. But what’s really [...]