Gov. Chris Christie has ambitious plans to improve NJ's public education. But the data to meet his goals is proving difficult to obtain.
JOHN MOONEY
John Mooney is the founding editor of NJ Spotlight, starting the news site in 2009 after more than 30 years in print journalism. Before NJ Spotlight, John was an education reporter with the Newark Star-Ledger and the Bergen Record and a contributing writer for The New York Times.
Education Commissioner Bret Schundler gives early look at how New Jersey aims to win federal education grants.
Governor Photos/Sarah RiceGov. Christie's proposed cuts in state education would total $1.1 billion, according to his plan. That would represent a change from three decades marked by ...
In his attempt to prevent the state Supreme Court from 'legislating from the bench', Governor Christie nominated Morris County lawyer Anne Patterson to the state’s ...
With cuts proposed in every department of the state government, legislators turn to the OLS's budget reports to help interpret and assess the numbers.
NJ SpotlightLouis Greenwald is interested in answers, and as chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee, he is willing to wait for them. A recent grilling of ...
The state has been talking for years about revamping how it scores the Alternative High School Assessment. Now that it has, as many as 6,000 ...
An analysis of the state’s preliminary results showed an unprecedented 58 percent of budgets rejected yesterday; the proposed tax increases in the spurned budgets averaged ...
Elections in Bloomfield, Metuchen and Linden shed light on voters' feelings about the governor, the teachers union and their public school systems.
Gov. Christie accuses New Jersey Education Association of dirty tricks, including harassing the Lt. Governor's children as school budget vote nears.
