DOE/Governor Stick Fingers in Ears Seems like everyone in New Jersey rejects both the SRA and the State’s trumped up “highest graduation rate in the country.” Despite the unified front, DOE and NJEA aren’t backing away from a system that disguises failure as success, while giving thousands of minority kids diplomas they can’t read.
June 25, 2009 The Press of Atlantic City If the Legislature cannot find a way to reduce New Jersey’s high property taxes, the least it can do is not make the problem worse. But that’s what two bills that advanced Monday in the Legislature could do: Reduce the flexibility of school officials to try to [...]
June 26, 2009 By Bob Ingle The Asbury Park Press Bob Bowdon While Bob Bowdon’s movie “The Cartel†on the failures of the education system — in New Jersey and elsewhere — is turning heads, the New York Times reports frustration with the education system may help GOP gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie in places unexpected. [...]
June 21, 2009 By JAMES AHEARN The Record In a number of districts with sizable middle-class populations, 14 percent or more of the students are taking the SRA route to graduation. THE NEW Jersey Department of Education is still struggling with the Special Review Assessment. This is the alternative test that high school students take [...]
JUNE 27, 2009 By JON KELLER The Wall Street Journal Boston Boston’s mayor risks the ire of the teachers’ unions. Tom Menino, the longtime Democratic mayor of this city, is not known for rocking the boat or for eloquence. But earlier this month he stunned many in the city when he gave a powerful speech [...]
June 21, 2009 mycentraljersey.com Gov. Jon S. Corzine made it clear through the passage of the new school funding formula last year that providing adequate financial support for public education is a priority of his administration. However, this formula continues to be inadequate and inequitable for the nearly 20,000 charter school students from all over [...]
June 22, 2009 by The Associated Press New Jersey Real Time News Republican candidate for governor Chris Christie, answers a question during final debate with Rick Merkt and Steve Lonegan before the June 2 primary at WOR-AM radio studios in Manhattan, NY. Christie today in Camden discussed the failures of the public school system in [...]
The Daily Journal And so we come again to that wonderful time of the year when high school graduations take center stage — beach balls bounce among the gowned and giddy graduates, and families sit through interminable parades of names to catch a glimpse of their adorable Seymour being handed his diploma. Of course, that [...]