The National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, is having trouble adjusting to the new political reality that has settled in throughout much of the country. Reform-minded governors and state legislators are reasserting the public’s ownership of public education, a move that will leave the special-interest unions out in the cold.
As a [...]
Education Action Group has produced an eye-opening chart illustrating the torturous, time-consuming and expensive process New Jersey schools must follow when attempting to fire a tenured teacher for “inefficiency, incapacity, conduct unbecoming or other just cause.”
EAG created this chart after consulting with James Smith, the executive director of school security for Paterson, NJ [...]
New Jersey Tenure chart - PDF
A few weeks ago we chided the Montclair, New Jersey teachers union for suggesting that students should pay to participate in school activities to help the district erase a projected $6.7 million deficit.
As an alternative, we suggested that Montclair residents take a close look at the teachers union contract and determine how much money [...]
It’s not every day you hear a governor laying the smack down on a group of thugs like the New Jersey Education Association, but that’s precisely what Gov. Chris Christie did before a stuffy crowd of education reformers recently.
Christie didn’t mince words. He said when he was elected and “arrived on the playground,” he found [...]
