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- Q&A: Katrina McCombs, New Superintendent of Camden City School District
- McCombs has big ambitions but is facing big challenges — not least a severe budget crisis
- Winning Rutgers Faculty Union Vows to Aid Part-Timers in Contract Battle
- After agreeing a ‘historic’ contract, officials with the union representing thousands of full-time faculty and graduate employees say they will work for colleagues still at the bargaining table
- Rutgers Reaches Tentative Deal with Faculty Union, Part-Timers Still Negotiate
- Although union members must approve agreement, a strike appears to have been averted. But no resolution yet for their part-time colleagues
- Murphy, Sweeney in Accord, More Money Should Go to Expanded Pre-K
- Governor’s proposal would add another $68 million to the current allocation of $738 million all told
- Many Questions and Few Answers in Education Budget Hearing
- Education commissioner admits state is little closer to solving testing problems, finding increased aid for hardest-hit districts
- Budget Committee Grills SDA Head on Spending — and Hiring and Firing
- Embattled executive director of Schools Development Authority defers answering most questions, saying situation is under review by counsel
- Rutgers Teetering on the Edge of Major Faculty Strike
- Students, faculty, union members, and national organizations come together in final show of solidarity outside Newark campus center
- Controversy Continues over NJ Schools Development Authority
- Amid storm over CEO Lizette Delgado-Polanco’s hirings and firings, a show of support for embattled leader of the SDA
- Political Firestorm Continues to Rage Over SDA Hirings and Firings
- Embattled CEO of Schools Development Authority deals with continued charges of patronage, favoritism
- Newark Schools Fell Back in 2018, Halting Years of Progress
- While experts caution that too much should not be read into test scores, the results provide fodder for critics of district’s previous aggressive changes
- Key Questions on Sale of Westminster Choir College to Chinese Unanswered
- Assistant Attorney General describes response of prospective seller, Rider University, as ‘less than optimal’
- Paterson’s School Funding Woes Dominate Public Budget Hearing
- Assembly committee is told Paterson school district is facing severe deficit, would have to make ‘massive’ staffing cuts if nothing changes
- Student Bill of Rights Central to New State Plan for Higher Education
- Long-terms goals include making college more affordable, keeping talent in New Jersey, and giving students a stronger voice
- Colleges Put Cannabis Studies on the Curriculum
- In New Jersey and elsewhere, students seek a leg up in all aspects of an industry that’s expected to soar high
- 2017-2018 School Report Cards Track Police Involvement in Incidents
- Violence and bullying most prevalent incidents. More than 150,000 instruction days lost statewide due to student suspensions
- Group May Head Back to Court over Lack of NJ School Desegregation
- A lawsuit filed last year claims residency rules are to blame for lack of diversity in New Jersey public education
- Spelling Out How School Funding Formula Needs to Be Overhauled
- New report says so many things have changed since formula was created a decade ago that big adjustments are needed, including more money for special education
- Latest Attempt to Rate NJ Schools Is Now Public
- State education officials are again assigning a numerical grade — from 1 to 100 — to schools, based on achievement and other factors. Check out our searchable database
- HS Graduation: Commissioner, Principals Discuss Key Issues
- ‘We are moving away from PARCC, and we are doing it methodically,’ Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet tells NJ Spotlight roundtable
- Winners and Losers Seen in State School-Aid Numbers
- Nearly 370 districts will be seeing some increase in aid; another 200 will lose out
- Defining the Diploma: NJ’s 21st-Century High School Graduate
- What should high school in New Jersey accomplish for students and communities? Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet joins the first of a four-part series of roundtables on the state of our education
- Details Of What Budget Means for New Jersey’s Schools
- A look at the specifics of a spending plan that boosts aid to districts by more than $200 million and pre-K funding by $68 million
- Effectiveness of Personalized Learning Program in NJ Questioned
- Results highlight debate over how to measure what’s working in the classroom when kids are learning different things
- Assembly Pulls PARCC Bill in Response to Worried Calls from Parents
- Mothers and fathers jump on unclear language that makes it sound as if more than one exam can be administered to high school students
- Advocates Perturbed as Lawmakers Press on with School Testing Legislation
- The saga over graduation requirements for New Jersey’s high school students was thought to have been settled last week. Proposed new legislation is raising more concerns
- PARCC Compromise Averts a Crisis for High School Seniors and Juniors
- But now New Jersey’s Department of Education must come up with graduation requirements for the class of 2021 and beyond
- How Are Districts Using State Pre-school Funds?
- Officials in two very different districts are figuring out how best to make use of their money from Trenton
- Eight School Districts Sue NJ DOE Over Cuts in State Aid
- But Senate President Sweeney says they should have seen the writing on the blackboard, changes resolve long-standing inequities in state education aid
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