Last week’s passage of a school district bailout bill should have elicited a joyful noise from Democrats and their allies, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
At annual NJEA conference, the main focus is on how to fight back politically The name of the summer workshop spoke volumes about the sense inside the New Jersey Education Association these days: “In Enemy Territory — Defending Your Rights in a Hostile Political Climate.” Such is life for the state’s largest teachers union going [...]
States will have 30 days to apply for their portion of the $26 billion. If a state chooses not to apply, the measure calls for the money to be distributed directly to its Title I schools, low-performing schools that are funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
It’s back to the drawing board for the Opportunity Scholarship Act, a bill designed to help kids stuck in chronically failing schools. The changes are designed to get it past lawmakers lacking guts to stand up to the teachers union.
Union Braces for Leaner Contract in City Where New Jersey’s Blunt-Talking Governor Has Control Over Struggling Schools When New Jersey agreed last year to give Newark teachers a 5% raise for working an extra four days, the union announced the news in a memo that included two dollar signs in large type and declared: “no [...]
Make it harder to get, easier to revoke There are a few third rails in education reform. School choice and merit pay are among them. And just as discussion about them has increased in both frequency and seriousness recently, so has the focus on what is arguably the holy grail of teacher collective bargaining: tenure.
By Kevin Manahan The Star-Ledger Kevin Stinson, a high school social studies teacher in Leonia, protested Gov. Chris Christie’s budget cuts during Saturday’s protest in Trenton.My father spent nearly his entire career in public relations at AT&T, so he was always dispensing advice on how to handle personal crises, big and small. And when I [...]
Rally in support of New jersey Opportunity Scholarship Act Bill s1872. 2000+ turn out in support for school choice.