TRENTON — New Jersey fell three points short of being one of the 10 finalists selected for hundreds of millions in federal education funding through the Obama administration’s Race to the Top education grant program. While the state scored high and low on a wide range of topics — including 10 points lost for lack [...]
Only three points kept NJ out of the winner’s circle, but a close review of its application reveals many categories where it came up short So close. New Jersey has for a second time failed to win federal Race to the Top money, but this time it was just three out of 500 points separating [...]
The Washington Post’s Jay Matthews has called attention to a questionable study on the graduation rates of minority students in Newark, N.J. The report, Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males, claims that New Jersey is successfully closing the achievement gap between white and minority male students.
Almost half of the New Jersey high school students who took the state’s new biology test this year flunked it. That was a trial run. But passing a biology exam will be a graduation requirement in the new school year for incoming freshmen — and possibly sophomores, too.
State’s major newspapers have supported change for years while the NJEA and Education Law Center trapped our children in failing schools. NJEA, ELC stand in the way of choices for our children The Asbury Park Press By Reginald T. Jackson Now the NJEA and ELC oppose the bipartisan Opportunity Scholarship Act, a bill that increases [...]
Q & A on the Opportunity Scholarship Act Download a Copy of the Chronically Failing Schools List (ZIP)
New Jersey Real-Time News Hundreds rally in support of school voucher bill