November 11th, 2009 BY LYNN BONNER NewsObserver.com Selling candy didn’t raise much money last year, so a Goldsboro middle school tried selling grades. However, the fundraiser came to an abrupt halt today after a story in The News & Observer raised concerns about the the practice of selling grades. Wayne County school administrators stopped the [...]
Joint Session Assembly Education, Budget and Appropriations Committees 12/27/07 Download the Testimony HERE. Members of the Joint Committee: My name is Derrell Bradford, and I am the Deputy Director of Excellent Education for Everyone, or E3. E3 has presented to the League of Municipalities’ Mayors Committee on the proposed School Funding Formula, and testified before [...]
PRESIDENT OF THE LATINO LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE TO THE JOINT SESSION OF THE ASSEMBLY EDUCATION, BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEES DECEMBER 27, 2007 Committee Members: I am Martin Perez, President of the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey (LLANJ). We are the largest Latino advocacy organization in New Jersey, and we represent most of the leading Latino [...]
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The Press of Atlantic City TRENTON – The sides in New Jersey’s debate over how the state should subsidize its public schools are not divided along party lines. The issue seems to be pitting the suburbs against the cities. Under the plan proposed this month by Gov. Jon S. Corzine, [...]
By JONATHAN TAMARI GANNETT STATE BUREAU The Asbury Park Press New Jersey’s influential teachers’ union endorsed Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s new school funding formula Thursday as the plan steamed toward approval. The endorsement puts significant political muscle behind the proposal, which would determine how the state doles out $7.8 billion to help pay for schools. [...]
Plan seeks legislative approval before lame-duck session ends BY JOE DONOHUE Star-Ledger Staff Gov. Jon Corzine won key support yesterday from the state’s powerful teachers union in his bid to overhaul the system for funding public education. Opposition from the 200,000-member New Jersey Education Association, a major political donor that commands one of Trenton’s largest [...]
By KATHLEEN CARROLL STAFF WRITER The Bergen Record CHART: Proposed Funding Changes for Schools. The powerful New Jersey Education Association, which represents 200,000 teachers, threw its support Thursday behind a fast-tracked proposal to retool the state’s school funding formula. But Assembly Minority Leader Alex DeCroce said the Legislature should not rush to approve the 106-page [...]
Sunday, December 23, 2007 The Star-Ledger Gov. Jon Corzine’s proposed $7.8 billion school funding plan would effectively end New Jersey’s decades of focus on its 31 poorest districts, as dictated under the state Supreme Court’s Abbott vs. Burke rulings, and instead spread the money across all districts with rising numbers of poor and immi grant [...]