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1. Christie proposes expansion of New Jersey's private charter school system
(N.J./State)

... ability to innovate in the classroom. Overhauling New Jersey's Charter School Laws to Encourage Growth and Expansion: Sweeping changes to New Jersey's charter school laws are needed to remove ...

2. Wanted: A few (more) good men to teach sex ed
(Life/Style)

... females are more apt to pursue graduate level work in health, family life, and sexuality education because they plan to stay in the classroom," she says. Administrators often make decisions that limit ...

3. New Jersey's charter school experiment: Money doesn't guarantee success
(N.J./State)

... doors in September, change was evident. But it would not be until November that they got their audience with the new executive director. Standing before them in a packed classroom, Pinder portrayed the ...

4. Weathering New Jersey higher education’s perfect storm
(Opinion/Commentary)

... does not end in the classroom. It must take place every day in a variety of ways: through articles like this, conversations in our communities and collaboration among peer educational institutions throughout ...

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

... to bringing positive change and innovation to our classrooms, no matter their zip code. "For too long we have accepted low expectations and failure – particularly in our urban school districts – which ...

6. Boy with lighter suspended for bringing weapon to school
(Life/Style)

... of the news that in Waretown, N.J., cupcakes or other treats are no longer allowed in the classroom for birthday celebrations. I guess a brownie is a weapon, too. For the record, the boy never flicked ...

7. Posting N.J. teacher evaluations online provokes concern
(N.J./State)

... "value" the teacher added or subtracted. Los Angeles learned that what matters most is not the school, but the particular classrooms a child lands in. And the best teachers weren't necessarily concentrated ...

8. New Jersey's charter school experiment: Glen Pinder shakes up Lady Liberty Academy
(N.J./State)

... school purchased new science equipment to fit out labs, and smart boards for classrooms. Electricians and other contractors worked on the building itself, rewiring and retrofitting space for offices. Certainly ...

9. Christie succeeds at keeping New Jersey’s school employees on unemployment rolls
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of his state budget cuts will spend the next year looking for jobs instead of returning to New Jersey's classrooms. By delaying New Jersey's application until nearly the last possible moment, Gov. Christie ...

10. Christie finally submits New Jersey’s application for $268M in federal education aid
(N.J./State)

... was to keep 3,900 (officials put the number at 3,200) New Jersey educators unemployed for as long as possible and to create maximum chaos and confusion in our classrooms, he has certainly succeeded. "While ...

11. Toms River equips 1,000 students with smartphones
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... return to the classroom equipped with smartphones. The initiative, part of a pilot mobile learning program that began with 100 students, is a cooperative venture among Toms River Regional Schools, Verizon ...

12. State receives $340,000 federal grant to promote better nutrition, physical fitness in schools
(Health/Healthquest)

... which will link classroom education to the foods served in the cafeteria, including food tastings, promotion of locally grown produce and strategies to engage families and the community. A school garden ...

13. With education cuts continuing, will Title IX suffer?
(Sports/Professional)

... Title IX exists because, again, I underline this and emphasize this. It is education, it is not about sports. It is education in the classroom and education on the field and that needs to be paramount ...

14. Back to school
(Life/Style)

... days of food supplies in a compartment of their backpack when they attend those colleges whose classroom buildings are required by federal law to be a minimum of three miles apart. After all of the books ...

15. Race to the Top failure could be defining political issue
(Opinion/Commentary)

... state aid to local school districts. Widespread teacher layoffs, cutbacks in programs, reduced busing services, larger classroom sizes, levying new costs for participation in extra curricular activities ...

16. Democrats criticize Christie for moving slowly on seeking $268M in federal education aid
(N.J./State)

... any other county. The devastating effects these cuts will have on our classrooms are compounded by our loss of Race to the Top funds.'' Wagner said the federal aid is a lifeline for schools struggling ...

17. Hey parents: Your back to school shopping list has a few new items
(Life/Style)

... to equip its bathrooms reliably. Trash bag liners — each student will have the opportunity to help keep the planet clean by providing the classroom cans with their own trash bags they bring from home. ...

18. Steve Adubato: No time for blame game while N.J. public school children continue to suffer
(Opinion/Commentary)

... kids continue to suffer. Any real advocate that is committed to improving our public schools needs to get on board this effort, which includes getting better teachers into the classroom and getting those ...

19. Christie's costly $400M federal aid mistake made after governor nixed NJEA compromise on application
(N.J./State)

... difference in our classrooms, especially for some of our neediest children. That's why this lost opportunity is so disappointing on so many levels." Oliver said the application proposed spending money ...

20. Christie, in part, blames Washington bureaucrats for loss of $400 million in federal education aid
(N.J./State)

... accountability to make sure we are seeing results in the classroom and that the goal of the race to the top program is accountability. Well, I want to bring that to New Jersey too. And so I hope it won't ...