'Huge benefits' for almost 600 districts to share services on special education, transportation and more, governor says

A Paterson school that's over 100 years old is in desperate need of repairs, but the authority charged with funding school capital projects may run ...

Gov. Christie's proposed Fairness Formula would mean the end of special protections for Abbott district full-day preschool. Advocates say the move would be devastating to ...

Christie takes his school aid "Fairness Formula" on the road and hits a pothole. Protesters calling the sweeping overhaul that gives more to wealthy districts, ...

The governor said his Fairness Formula would lower property taxes in many suburbs, including an average of $2,200 in Fair Lawn, and it would give ...

Obama embraces his political heir as Democrats wrap up their nominating convention. Are they more unified at the end than they were at the beginning? ...

Dan Katz, an education professor at Seton Hall University, says Gov. Christie's plan to change the school funding formula doesn't provide equity across the state.

It's the week they dole out the money. Wrapping up the state budget has as much to do with votes to override a veto as ...

Gov. Christie has proposed sending $6,599 per pupil in state aid to every district in the state, which would increase state aid in 75 percent ...

Christie calls for sweeping change to the troubled school funding formula. Instead of sending 58 percent of aid to just 5 percent of school districts, ...

The 100-year-old law that governs elections is getting an upgrade; the proposals would make registration easier and voting less cumbersome. A New Jersey law to ...

David Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center, talks about where New Jersey ranks in education funding and how the state needs to do ...

Our state stands alone in rejecting a regional plan to cut greenhouse gases. Was it legal? Why are so many more New Jersey mothers Breast ...

NJ Spotlight Education Writer Laura Waters says some poorer school districts are receiving more money per student than wealthier districts because the students require more ...

At the Assembly budget hearing, Chief Political Correspondent Michael Aron says both sides are mapping out strategies for long, bloody campaigns.

In hist budget address, Gov. Chris Christie announced he would increase school aid in for the first time in 2 years. But the announcement caused ...