NJDOE SEEKS TO ELIMINATE CRITICAL SUPPORTS FOR AT-RISK STUDENTS
Advocates Mount Challenge to Protect Rights of NJ’s Most Vulnerable Students In a radical change to longstanding practice,…
NJDOE PROPOSES TO END QUICK ACTION ON EMERGENT REPAIRS AND CREATE MORE ROADBLOCKS TO SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION
The NJ Department of Education (NJDOE) is proposing to eliminate the longstanding procedure for “expedited” action on emergency…
APPELLATE DECISION AFFIRMS COMMISSIONER’S DECISION NOT TO RETURN LOCAL CONTROL TO NEWARK ADVISORY BOARD
In a decision issued today, a three judge panel in the Appellate Division of NJ Superior Court affirmed…
CAPE MAY VOCATIONAL AGREES TO FAIRLY TREAT STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
The Cape May County Technical Board of Education and the NJ Division on Civil Rights (DCR) have entered…
FY14 NJ EDUCATION BUDGET PROTECTS SCHOOL FUNDING FORMULA, STRIKES VOUCHERS
But Flat Funding Leaves Students Further Behind With passage by the Legislature of the FY14 State Budget, the…
STATE’S CHARTER EXPANSION REGULATIONS UNDER CHALLENGE BY ELC
In a brief filed this week with a state appellate court, ELC argues that Commissioner Christopher Cerf and…
COMMISSIONER AGREES NJDOE FAILED TO PROMPTLY ADDRESS EMERGENT SCHOOL BUILDING REPAIRS
In a decision issued June 13, NJ Commissioner of Education Christopher Cerf agreed with an Administrative Law Judge…
BROAD CONSENSUS ON ASSEMBLY BILL TO AMEND NJ CHARTER SCHOOL LAW
On Monday, the Assembly Education Committee took a significant step forward in the process of updating and improving…
COURT RULING VINDICATES PARENTS’ RIGHT TO HAVE INPUT ON NYC DOE SCHOOL SPENDING PLAN
New York public school parents scored a victory today in a State Supreme Court decision ordering the City…
ELC’S LAWSUIT LEADS STATE TO RETURN CONTROL OF FISCAL MANAGEMENT TO NEWARK ADVISORY BOARD
But Goal of Local Control for Newark Schools Remains During oral argument before the Appellate Court on Tuesday,…