The New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association is cautiously optimistic with many of the proposals included in Governor Christie’s FY 2017 Budget Address. We look forward to working with the Administration and the Legislature […]
The New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association is cautiously optimistic with many of the proposals included in Governor Christie’s FY 2017 Budget Address. We look forward to working with the Administration and the Legislature […]
Possibly laying the groundwork for today’s speech, a commission that the governor had tasked with looking into the pension crisis released its third report last week. This time, the panel attacked the proposed amendment and […]
The Senate Higher Education committee in their inaugural meeting of the new session took testimony on several student aid issues. NJPSA weighed in on several of the measures. Changes to Graduation Requirement Senate bill […]
The New Jersey State Board of Education got an update on PARCC and took testimony on proposed changes to New Jersey’s graduation requirements as well as its academic standards (core curriculum content standards). NJPSA […]
Assemblywoman Mila Jasey, Assembly speaker Vincent Prieto and Assemblyman Thomas Giblin announced legislation to expand full-day preschool statewide Tuesday at a school in Clifton February 9. The bi-partisan bill (A-2572 (Jasey/DeCroce/Diegnan) proposes to expand […]
The Assembly Education Committee approved several pieces of legislation that had made its way to the Governor’s desk and were pocket vetoed at the end of the last legislative session in a legislative ‘do-over. […]
In a closely watched case brought by 10 California teachers – the Supreme Court is poised to decide the first amendment issue of whether public workers should be required to support unions they have […]
The state Department of Education released PARCC results for individual districts and schools late last week, several weeks after statewide scores for the new assessment were released (NJDOE Release Additional PARCC Info, State Board Approves […]
Two of the state’s most influential business groups – the NJ Chamber of Commerce (NJCC) and NJ Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) announced earlier this week that they plan to aggressively campaign against the […]
New Jersey’s high school graduation rate rose last year for the fourth consecutive year, with 89.7 percent of students receiving diplomas in 2015 — up from 88.6 percent the year before, the state Department […]