February 24, 2021
Gov. Murphy is out with his FY2022 budget. Four facts stand out: Murphy is increasing spending to $44.8 billion, a 10% increase over last year. Murphy […]
February 22, 2021
NJ Education Aid published some of its excellent, data-driven work in NJ Education Report, this time focusing on the hard numbers about NJ’s outmigration problem. These […]
February 19, 2021
Rather than leading, NJEA VP/Mayor Sean Spiller is playing a double game in Montclair’s dispute over reopening schools. In totally predictable fashion, Spiller’s conflict of interest […]
February 15, 2021
The Montclair Local reports that a Chancery Court has denied a preliminary injunction that would have forced Montclair teachers to end their boycott of the Montclair […]
February 11, 2021
Derrell Bradford captures the situation in Montclair perfectly in his excellent piece for Eduction Next, “A Rolling Teacher Strike Is Why Schools Are Closed.” With NJEA […]
February 10, 2021
Mark Weber (a.k.a., Jersey Jazzman) authored a recent report for the Fordham Institute that showed that, contrary to what is commonly assumed, charter schools do not […]
February 9, 2021
NJ Spotlight reports that NJ property taxes were up 1.8% from 2019 to 2020. BuryPensions calculates that they actually rose 2.4%. In any event, they are […]
February 5, 2021
Credit to BuryPensions for catching this. The Mondelez (owner of Nabisco) plant in Fair Lawn is shutting down. That’s 600 jobs that disappear with it. What […]
February 4, 2021
There has been a lot of reporting on the Montclair schools re-opening dispute, but that the press has neglected to ask NJEA Vice president/Montclair Mayor Sean […]