It would take a relatively modest sum to make a big impact on early literacy efforts

In this increasingly contentious atmosphere, libraries remain one of the last vestiges of the public sphere

The Lottery switch is one more scheme that will dig NJ’s already deep hole of shrinking support for essential services and investments even deeper

Both proposals being considered this week would have improved transportation funding but at the price of serious financial and economic damage to the state

Who gets tax revenues? What about competition? Who will upgrade roads and transit? And exactly how will this help Atlantic City?

Surcharge on corporate taxes, rate increase on income over $1 million needed to escape budget emergency without further damage

New Jersey’s leaders should make investments in proven ways to grow the economy instead of continuing to focus on reducing taxes.

The only way to make the Jersey Comeback a reality is for Gov. Christie to forego his tax cuts and put the money to work ...

We still need a voucher bill that does one thing well --serves the poorest kids in the worst schools.

An unproven, unreliable framework for reform is no better -- and possibly worse -- than today's failed scheme.

The Urban Hope Act gives George Norcross just what he wants, a way to clean up Camden.

Mechanistically linking test scores to teacher evaluations means trouble not accountability.

NJ wants out of No Child Left Behind. Does it have anything better to offer?

The war of words about school reform makes meaningful dialogue impossible.

When educators are silent, the governor's barbs and soundbites are all the more convincing.

In capping superintendent salaries, the Christie administration seems to have forgotten the basic rule of supply and demand.

For the Department of Education, evaluating teachers is apparently neither science nor art.

The court and the governor could have used Abbott to help all poor kids. Now it's up to the legislature.

By opting to charge illegal aliens triple tuition, the County College of Morris takes a big step backward.

By assuming all poor kids are the same, the DOE can "prove" charters are better.