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1. When will Republicans get serious about the youth vote?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of No Child Left Behind—their assembly line approach to educating our countries youth. (Maybe they even knew it sucked?) School districts around the country were forced to allow the performance gap to ...

2. Christie moves to change state school funding formula
(N.J./State)

... said that making modifications to the school funding formula will make it possible to fund districts based on the number and needs of students, while at the same time laying out a schedule that adds additional ...

3. NFL Scouting Combine, hypertension, and morbid obesity: Football is a tough career
(Sports/Professional)

... in some cases, are capping tax increases for school districts and lopping off arts and music programs. But there will come a day where insuring "student-athletes" in collision sports such as football and ...

4. Full text of Gov. Christie’s Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Address
(Money/Economy)

... well-known to you that I believe we have work to do to improve our k-12 education system in particular. We have great outcomes in some districts. But we have terrible performance in others. That is ...

5. Christie to unveil proposed $30 billion 2012-13 state budget Tuesday
(Money/Economy)

... expect Christie to announce a new state school funding formula that would cut aid to the 32 poorest urban school districts while increasing funding for suburban districts. And with state tax collections ...

6. Christie says state will provide $675M to repair schools
(N.J./State)

... poorest districts, Gov. Chris Christie announced Wednesday. They are divided into three categories addressing: high educational priority needs, high educational priority needs that require further discussions ...

7. Amazon looks at N.J. for expansion, asks for sales tax holiday
(Money/Economy)

... of dollars in revenues we should be getting and we're also putting at risk jobs in our retail centers and central business districts." Lesniak said that Amazon is free to take advantage of tax incentive ...

8. Obama relieves New Jersey of No Child Left Behind education standards
(N.J./State)

... goes hand in hand with the accountability system changes in the waiver to fix failing schools and will result in greater school choice for students in underperforming districts, a system to identify and ...

9. Merck develops drug that deals with its own side effects
(Life/Style)

... NOVICK Eli Manning earns MVP for helping fans forget Madonna's halftime show State commission reveals 12 new congressional districts in the shape of N.J. Sen. Frank Lautenberg's long career celebrated ...

10. N.J. school board elections moved to November: Major reform is embraced
(Opinion/Commentary)

... all the stakeholders to the table and forging a compromise, we passed a major reform measure in a matter of weeks in December and January that allows school districts to move their elections to November. ...

11. Eli Manning earns MVP for helping fans forget Madonna's halftime show
(Life/Style)

... “I’m going to Six Flags Great Adventure!” Joey Novick is the Editor in Chief at www.whatexitnj.com. ALSO BY JOEY NOVICK State commission reveals 12 new congressional districts in the shape of N.J. ...

12. New sexuality education standards in U.S. make history
(Health/Healthquest)

... a floor for sex education with the adoption of these minimal standards. We’re not discussing the ceiling, and there is no time limit imposed on districts to begin adopting the standards. Of course, it ...

13. Key to N.J. tax relief: Revamp urban education, abolish state income tax
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  (Public education, for the record, is also one of the 10 planks of The Communist Manifesto.) Urban school districts cannot pay for their own schools at the current level of expenditures without massive ...

14. N.J. school test results show low-income urban students continue to struggle
(N.J./State)

... experience, continuously improve their practice. Eleven districts are currently piloting and helping to develop the new evaluation system, with full implementation planned for 2013-14. In addition, Cerf ...

15. Newark special education case illustrates dilemma faced by all people with disabilities
(Opinion/Commentary)

... in many cases this timeline is not met in school districts throughout New Jersey. One of the factors that prevent school districts from meeting the mandated timeline is the lack of a sufficient number ...

16. N.J. has more 'things and stuff' than other states
(Life/Style)

... Ishunit. Joey Novick is the Editor in Chief at www.whatexitnj.com. ALSO BY JOEY NOVICK State commission reveals 12 new congressional districts in the shape of N.J. Sen. Frank Lautenberg's long ...

17. Council on Local Mandates strikes down N.J.'s anti-bullying law
(N.J./State)

... it represents an unfunded mandate on school districts and local governments. The Allamuchy Board of Education complained to the council in August that the law would cost the district money to enforce ...

18. Ex-Westfield schools administrator Robert Berman gets probation for corruption
(N.J./State)

... scheme The school district engineer, Kenneth Disko, 48, of Mountainside, was the contracted engineer or engineer/architect on record for the Westfield, Tinton Falls and Scotch Plains-Fanwood school districts. ...

19. The Christie administration is dividing New Jerseyans, not uniting them
(Opinion/Commentary)

... the charter school movement, complaining that charter schools deprive public school districts of badly needed resources. Teachers have felt that they have been under attack since Christie took office. ...

20. No Controversy
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... districts score higher on standardized tests (unfortunately, our only apples-to-apples comparison) than the traditional public schools. Don't give me the BS about the longitudinal studies that bring ...