It would take a relatively modest sum to make a big impact on early literacy efforts
GORDON MACINNES
Gordon MacInnes is a former state senator and assemblyman from Morris County and also served as assistant education commissioner from 2002 to 2007. He was most recently president of the New Jersey Policy Perspective think tank, from which he retired in 2018.
NJTVIn this increasingly contentious atmosphere, libraries remain one of the last vestiges of the public sphere
NJTVThe Lottery switch is one more scheme that will dig NJ’s already deep hole of shrinking support for essential services and investments even deeper
NJTVBoth proposals being considered this week would have improved transportation funding but at the price of serious financial and economic damage to the state
NJTVWho gets tax revenues? What about competition? Who will upgrade roads and transit? And exactly how will this help Atlantic City?
NJTVSurcharge on corporate taxes, rate increase on income over $1 million needed to escape budget emergency without further damage
New Jersey’s leaders should make investments in proven ways to grow the economy instead of continuing to focus on reducing taxes.
The only way to make the Jersey Comeback a reality is for Gov. Christie to forego his tax cuts and put the money to work ...
We still need a voucher bill that does one thing well --serves the poorest kids in the worst schools.
An unproven, unreliable framework for reform is no better -- and possibly worse -- than today's failed scheme.