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1. Fact checking Gov. Christie’s State of the State address
(Opinion/Commentary)

... an outmigration of about 20,000 residents a year to other states, including retirees who move to southern states. "Overall, statewide per pupil spending in New Jersey is the highest in the nation, at ...

2. N.J. Supreme Court names ‘special master’ to examine legality of Gov. Christie's school aid cuts
(N.J./State)

... urban versus suburban districts, despite the massive infusions of funding and per-pupil cost in some districts," Drewniak said. "The governor's reform proposals are intended to close the achievement gap ...

3. Gov. Chris Christie 2011 State of the State Address
(N.J./State)

... pupil spending in New Jersey is the highest in the nation, at over $17,600 per student. But our results in terms of achievement are not number one, and they are not uniformly excellent or even acceptable. ...

4. Autistic children benefitting from Apple technology
(Health/Healthquest)

... pupils, has an iPod Touch. Two dozen Reed Academy students, ranging in age from 3 to 14, go about their individualized days — but return constantly to their touch screens with their teachers. The ...

5. New Jerseyans want state to spend more on education, poll finds
(N.J./State)

... teacher pay on pupil test results. "The spending results are consistent with our earlier polling," Prof. David Redlawsk, the poll's director, said. "New Jerseyans generally support their schools and ...

6. Christie should battle N.J. Supreme Court and not NJEA
(Opinion/Commentary)

... reforms as outlined by the Education Law Center, which filed the lawsuit that led to the Court's decision. These reforms include: Rigorous content standards-based education, supported by per-pupil ...

7. Rutgers death
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

The recent Rutgers University suicide has set media hounds to the chase and cast a pall over the collective morale of the NJ university's pupil body. The Associated Press accounts that Molly Wei's lawyers ...

8. Zuckerberg’s $100 million must lead to total makeover and not just reform of Newark schools
(Opinion/Commentary)

... generous gift could be the beginning of implementing reforms to achieve several goals: reducing the cost per pupil of urban schools, relieving the tax burden of suburban taxpayers, and creating learning ...

9. Christie declares war on those he deems to be underperforming public school teachers
(N.J./State)

... who are innovative, who challenge their pupils to maximize their potential and achieve results is not unfair, it is a necessity.''  ...

10. Wasting time
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... that the school system is so bad or they would not have received free money. Apparently school systems that do well aren't entitled benefactors. So now fundering can go from 22,000 per pupil to almost ...

11. Cory Booker, Chris Christie to appear on Oprah Friday to announce restructuring of Newark schools
(N.J./State)

... about $22,000 a year on each of its 40,000 pupils, but only about half of its students graduate. Only one-fifth of those who do go on to four-year colleges. More than 85 percent of the Newark students ...

12. New Jersey's charter school experiment: Inside Newark's Lady Liberty Academy
(N.J./State)

... Liberty's per-pupil finances match up well with those of other public schools. Of Lady Liberty's $6.5 million operating budget for 2010-11, more than $6 million comes from the local levy. The school shows ...

13. Christie signs bill to ease N.J. special education costs for school districts
(N.J./State)

... a school district is eligible to receive state funding to provide the special education evaluation services. Wagner said the Paramus school district recently conducted an initial evaluation of a pupil ...

14. Where to start....
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... in terms of brackets? Is the NJ top income bracket the same as NY and PA? If not, and I will have to take the time to look it up, then these numbers mean little. I'm still trying to find the per pupil ...

15. Christie begins assault on N.J. pensions and benefits
(N.J./State)

... health care, and other expenses borne by the State. Statewide Per Pupil Spending Is The Highest In The Nation At $17,620. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, New Jersey spent ...

16. New Jerseyans will be hit with 3.3 percent property tax increase this year
(N.J./State)

... just under $80,000 per pupil to send 24 children to the nearby Ocean Township public schools. Betty McBain, the president of the village's board of trustees said that was about twice as much as it costs ...

17. Assembly Democrats kiss Christie's government change bills good-bye for the summer
(N.J./State)

... and superintendent contracts. *No approval if salary/benefit increases exceed the levy cap, pupil contact time per day as set by regulation, minimum number of work as set by regulation or auxiliary/ancillary ...

18. Public money for New Jersey’s public schools, period!
(Opinion/Commentary)

... to have one ‘underperforming school" in it) will lose its per pupil aid for all who leave with vouchers, leaving the home district with even fewer resources to improve education for the remaining students. ...

19. N.J. public school choice coming closer to reality
(N.J./State)

... of Education, detailing the services available to students and an accounting of the fiscal impacts of being a choice district. If an approved district has available space, pupils who wish to transfer ...

20. ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ credited for helping N.J. boy, 8, save neighbor, 5, from drowning
(N.J./State)

...  So his mom jumped in, discovered the same thing and panicked. This was a job for the pupil of SpongeBob. Reese jumped in, swam over to Andrew and grabbed him, imitating what he had seen on the ...