At the time of this posting, most school boards will have some representatives at the NJSBA/NJASA/NJASBO Workshop in Atlantic City.  In fact, some of you may be reading this while you’re at the conference.  Most of your travel expenses (more…)

Over the weekend, an Associated Press report stated that Assembly Speaker Joe Roberts expects “legislators to focus on a new school funding formula once they return (more…)

It was one of Disney’s most clever creations: an animated cartoon show about school recess.  The studio even made a “Recess” feature film. The movie concerned a devious plot by a disgruntled former principal who, years earlier, left the school district when the superintendent vetoed his plan to eliminate recess.

People do take recess seriously.  Not just in the world of Disney, but also in Bergen (more…)

At dinner when we discuss the relative merits of McCain and Giuliani and Obama and Clinton, I tell my kids about party politics (more…)

There has been much discussion about a new school funding formula in the press since last year’s special legislative session. But so far, (more…)

Should school districts forgive the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation, which has been reincarnated as New Jersey Schools (more…)