(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)Reductions in state aid are anticipated for around 140 school districts
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)Reductions in state aid are anticipated for around 140 school districts

An estimated $1 billion is needed over the next decade to provide safe and healthy school environments for charter students
Credit: Erica Seryhm Lee for ChalkbeatOnly nine new school projects have been finished in the city since 2006

‘I’ll do what I can to continue to help out the cause’

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 ...

The Civil Rights Project at UCLA has published an update of its report on racial segregation in New Jersey schools, concluding that the state has ...

Six Newark parents are part of a lawsuit challenging the state's teacher tenure law. The suit contends the rule frequently referred to as last in, ...

As Bridgegate jurors deliberate, the defense files a motion for a mistrial under seal. You're paying more at the pump. On next Tuesday's ballot, a ...

Gov. Christie has filed a lawsuit asking New Jersey’s Supreme Court to basically break its own landmark Abbott v. Burke decision and claims collective bargaining ...

The governor's trying to get a landmark school funding law overturned by the high court. Is his motive educational, political or both? More Garden State ...

Hespe concedes the state didn’t follow legally required procedure, but says it’s now complying with the law.

About 2,000 children in 19 districts will benefit from $66 million in aid, partly closing gap left when state abandoned earlier pledge to expand pre-K.
NJ SpotlightWith the education commissioner’s job vacant, there’s even more uncertainty for teachers and educators at the start of another school year.

Well-off Montgomery school district, facing more than $5 million in state aid cuts, files amicus brief.

As directed by the state Supreme Court, the Christie administration is reviewing the formulas used to determine aid for schools.
NJSLegislators get down to deal-making as Gov. Christie presses for passage.

Court finds against Perth Amboy challenge to Executive Order 14, which allows administration to withhold aid from New Jersey school districts.

Welcome to 'Emerging' New Jersey, where consensus, centrist politics and common sense are only a memory.

Latest filing prompts speculation about arguments, alliances and justices hearing the case, not to mention the eventual decision.

Senate President Steve Sweeney characterizes governor's comments about naming a majority of the state's highest court 'scary' and 'very dangerous.'