Other Issues
NEW JERSEY ATTORNEYS NEEDED TO REPRESENT STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
Published on: November 4, 2013
ELC is sponsoring a full-day training for lawyers interested in volunteering their time to advocate on behalf of students deprived of their right to special education services.
ELC RECEIVES ADVOCACY AWARD FROM NAACP BRANCH
Published on: October 28, 2013
On October 26, ELC was presented with the Education Advocacy Award by the New Brunswick Area Branch of the NAACP during the organization’s 40th Annual Freedom Fund Luncheon.
ELC PUSHES NJ COMMISSIONER TO FILE LONG OVERDUE PROGRESS REPORTS ON STATE TAKEOVER DISTRICTS
Published on: October 14, 2013
NJ Education Commissioner Cerf has failed to file annual reports for the last three years with the Legislature’s oversight committee on State operation of the Newark, Paterson and Jersey City public schools.
NJDOE SEEKS TO ELIMINATE CRITICAL SUPPORTS FOR AT-RISK STUDENTS
Published on: July 15, 2013
In a radical change to longstanding practice, the NJDOE is proposing to end the requirement that school districts provide quality, needs-based alternative education settings for at-risk students who are removed from general education.
APPELLATE DECISION AFFIRMS COMMISSIONER’S DECISION NOT TO RETURN LOCAL CONTROL TO NEWARK ADVISORY BOARD
Published on: July 8, 2013
A three judge panel in the Appellate Division of NJ Superior Court affirmed Commissioner Cerf's July 2011 decision not to return local control of personnel and governance to the Newark Advisory Board.
ELC’S LAWSUIT LEADS STATE TO RETURN CONTROL OF FISCAL MANAGEMENT TO NEWARK ADVISORY BOARD
Published on: June 5, 2013
The return of fiscal management to the district is long overdue. But the district also achieved the necessary benchmarks in personnel and governance, so those areas must be returned as well.
Seize the Moment! Wade Henderson Urges Educational Equity
Published on: May 21, 2013
Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, was recently honored by ELC with the Education Justice Award for national leadership in educational equity. Mr. Henderson also delivered ELC’s annual Education Justice Lecture.
NEW REPORT SAYS REFORM RHETORIC TRUMPS REALITY
Published on: April 22, 2013
Top-down pressure from federal education policies is making a popular set of market-oriented education “reforms” look more like the new status quo than real reform, according to a new report from the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education.