COMMISSIONER CHOOSES PRIVATE, CLOSED PROCESS TO SOLICIT BIDS FOR EVALUATION OF STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
WILL REVIEW BE INDEPENDENT, COMPREHENSIVE AND THOROUGH? On the heels of another internal “reorganization” of the NJ Department…
NJDOE REORGANIZED BEFORE INDEPENDENT EVALUATION
On March 7th, State Education Commissioner Lucille Davy presented a plan to reorganize the New Jersey Department of…
BILL REQUIRING EVALUATION OF NJDOE NOW LAW
NEXT STEP: PREPARE BID AND HIRE EXPERTS On January 29th, Governor Jon Corzine signed into law Joint Resolution…
ABBOTT LEGISLATORS WANT OUTSIDE EXPERTS TO EVALUATE NJDOE
REJECT PROPOSAL FOR “SELF-EVALUATION” BY COMMISSIONER Newark NJ – December 11, 2006 Legislators representing Abbott school districts want…
REPORT FINDS SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH STATE’S NEW DISTRICT MONITORING SYSTEM
The Institute on Education Law and Policy (IELP) at Rutgers-Newark recently released a report evaluating the 2006 pilot…
STATE BOARD URGED TO DEVELOP VIABLE PLAN TO INTEGRATE DWIGHT MORROW HIGH SCHOOL
Education Law Center and the NJ Conference of NAACP has issued a strong critique of the November 16th…
ELC ISSUES ADVISORY ON WHOLE SCHOOL REFORM
ABBOTT X REMAINS IN FULL EFFECT Abbott elementary schools must continue implementing whole school reform (WSR) in 2004-05…
COURT AGAIN RULES STATE MUST REMEDY SCHOOL SEGREGATION
The State Supreme Court has reaffirmed New Jersey’s prohibition on school segregation, ruling that “racial imbalance resulting from…
KEY LEGISLATOR CALLS FOR REVISIONS TO ABBOTT RULES
Assembly Education Committee Chair Craig Stanley is urging NJ Education Commissioner William Librera to reconvene the Abbott Rulemaking…
BROWN, ABBOTT AND NJ’S SEGREGATED PUBLIC SCHOOLS
STATE LEADERS URGED TO FULLY SUPPORT ABBOTT REFORMS The 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board ruling ending…