Opportunity Scholarship Act

Black-Ministers-Council , BMC , NJOSA , Opportunity Scholarship Act

Special Review Assessment Denial

April 20, 2009 NJ Left Behind Reverend Reginald T. Jackson, Executive Director of The Black Ministers’ Council of New Jersey, testified before the State Board of Education last week and expressed ire and frustration with the D.O.E.’s newly rigorous high school graduation requirements and the continuing use of the Special Review Assessment (SRA) that lets [...]

Black-Ministers-Council , Board-of-Education , DOE , High School Proficiency Assessment , HSPA , Lucille Davy , Reverend-Reginald-Jackson , Special Review Assessment , SRA

Teacher tenure: It’s time to end Newark’s antiquated tenure system

April 10, 2009 by The Star-Ledger Editorial Board The Star-Ledger The Rev. Reginald Jackson, head of New Jersey’s Black Ministers council, thinks teacher tenure covers up failure and hurts children by making it hard to fire incompetent instructors. He stood on the steps of the Statehouse recently and called for changes to the current tenure [...]

Black-Ministers-Council , Clifford Janey , Newark , Newark Teachers Union , Reverend-Reginald-Jackson , tenure

A call for reform of public education

BY RUDY LARINI STATEHOUSE BUREAU The Star-Ledger Black Ministers Council blasts tenure rules The state’s public education system covers up failure, deprives students of a quality education and fosters a false sense of high achievement, the head of New Jersey’s Black Ministers Council said yesterday. “New Jersey spends more on education than any other state [...]

Black-Ministers-Council , Education Reform , High School Proficiency Assessment , HSPA , Reverend-Reginald-Jackson , S-1607 , Special Review Assessment , SRA , tenure , Urban Enterprise Zone Jobs Scholarship Act

Rev. Reginald Jackson says N.J. teacher tenure kills incentive to do best

March 25, 2009 by The Associated Press NJ.com The head of New Jersey’s Black Ministers Council said public school reform begins with revising tenure. The Rev. Reginald Jackson said no other profession gives lifetime job security after three years. He said tenured teachers have no incentive to do their best. Rev. Reginald Jackson preaches to [...]

Black-Ministers-Council , High School Proficiency Assessment , HSPA , Reverend-Reginald-Jackson , St. Matthew AME Church , tenure

Yes to government scholarships for low-income families

July 11, 2008 by Sen. Raymond Lesniak NJ Voices Senator Lesniak delivered this speech Friday July 11, 2008 at the annual retreat of The Alliance for School Choice in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. For more information about the legislation referenced in this speech, please see the NJVoices post from May 2, 2008 entitled, “Stopping the Collapse [...]

Black-Ministers-Council , Cory-Booker , dana-rone , Latino-Leadership-Alliance , Martin-Perez , New Jersey , Private-Schools , Raymond Lesniak , Reverend-Reginald-Jackson , S-1607 , scholarships , The Alliance for School Choice , Urban Enterprise Zone Jobs Scholarship Act

Catholic Schools-A Partner in NJ’s Educational Efforts

BY ARCHBISHOP JOHN J. MYERS This article appeared in the Jan. 23, 2008 edition of The Catholic Advocate This column about Catholic Schools Week is going to be a little different. As you all know, Catholic schools in New Jersey-indeed, throughout the country-are facing a number of challenges, the largest among them how to ensure [...]

Achievement , Archbishop-John-Myers , Black-Ministers-Council , Catholic Schools , Rev.-Reginald-Jackson , school-closings , the blitz , The-Urban-Schools-Scholarship-Act

Vouchers are the obvious choice

by Tom Moran The Star-Ledger To the Rev. Reginald Jackson, head of the Black Ministers’ Council, the remarkable success of the state’s private preschools holds an obvious lesson. We need more school choice. We need to break the monopoly of the public school system. We need to build on this success by at least experimenting [...]

Abbott , Black-Ministers-Council , Preschools , Rev.-Reginald-Jackson , Vouchers