WORK GROUP DEVELOPING MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL REFORMS
A work group has been convened to develop a program of whole school reform (WSR) in secondary schools…
ABBOTT COURT RULING STRENGTHENS WHOLE SCHOOL REFORM
After directing the parties in the Abbott v. Burke case into mediation with Appellate Judge Philip Carchman, the…
NATIONAL MOVEMENT FOR UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL GROWING
Addressing the National School Funding Network on November 6th in Washington, D.C., Education Law Center’s preschool advocate Ellen…
LINKING FUNDING ADEQUACY TO EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT
LESSONS FROM NEW JERSEY In a presentation to the Alliance for Excellent Education on November 17th in Washington,…
2003-04 ABBOTT DISTRICT BUDGETS: CONTENTIOUS AND STILL NOT RESOLVED
Education Law Center (ELC) is closely monitoring the budgets of the Abbott districts for 2003-04. For the second…
NEW JERSEY MOVES TOWARD UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN
New Jersey is making progress towards enrolling all three-and four-year olds in urban communities, as required by the…
SFA FOUNDER TOUTS ACHIEVEMENT GAINS IN ABBOTT SCHOOLS
In an op-ed in the Times of Trenton on June 22, 2003, Dr. Robert Slavin describes the gains…
AR- ACLU-NJ AND ELC CALL FOR STATE ACTION ON POLICE IN NJ SCHOOLS
DATA AND PUBLIC REPORTING URGENTLY NEEDED In a joint request to New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and…
AR-DIGITAL DIVIDE A VIOLATION OF STUDENTS’ CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
NJ Must Address Digital Divide The State of New Jersey’s continuing failure to eliminate the digital divide for…
AR – NURSES, ESSENTIAL FOR REOPENING NJ SCHOOLS, IN SHORT SUPPLY
Nearly 300 public schools serving over 106,000 students had no assigned school nurse on staff, and another 13,000…