Akian Chaifetz’s Father Suspected Somethign Was Wrong and Put a Wire on His Son
Continue Reading →New Jersey’s Assembly Budget Committee is set to take a close look this week at Gov. Christie’s plans for higher education spending.
Continue Reading →Published Online: April 17, 2012
Published in Print: April 18, 2012, as Separate Reading Exams Await Would-Be Elementary Teachers
A handful of states are gradually adopting licensing tests that measure aspiring elementary teachers’ ability to ma…
Continue Reading →Published Online: April 12, 2012
ABERDEEN, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey principal who told middle school students they were in a “no hugging school” has resigned.
Tyler Blackmore filed his resignation from Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School on April 5…
PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) — A northern New Jersey school district has sued its superintendent in a bid to recover almost $38,000 in alleged salary overpayments he received under a contract the state forced it to rescind.
The Daily Record of Parsippany…
As a court officer clears the way, Dharun Ravi, center, is helped by his father, Ravi Pazhani, center right, as they leave court in New Brunswick, N.J., on March 16. Ravi, a former Rutgers University student, was convicted of bias intimidation and in…
Continue Reading →Published Online: March 15, 2012
“Boneless lean beef trimmings” are shown before packaging. The debate over “pink slime” in chopped beef is hitting critical mass. The term, adopted by opponents of “lean finely textured beef,” describes the processed …
Continue Reading →TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — For the second straight year, New Jersey’s powerful teachers union has topped the list of lobbyist spending by special interest groups.
The New Jersey Education Association spent $11.3 million in 2011 — more than any other s…
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — In the last two days of his life, Tyler Clementi visited his roommate’s Twitter page 38 times and saved screen shots of two messages posted there. One proclaimed that the roommate saw Clementi “making out with a dude.” T…
Continue Reading →Published Online: March 5, 2012
Trenton, N.J.
Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday that he’s looking for another way to count impoverished students whose districts qualify for additional school aid because the existing measure—participation in a…