‘I’ll do what I can to continue to help out the cause’
David Sciarra
The state Supreme Court rejected Gov. Christie's plea to freeze state aid at current levels and let him break union contracts to enact reforms.
New Jersey and New York have set aside inter-Port Authority competition and are instead uniting against an executive order from Trump. Christie suffers a legal ...
The school funding fight. If Christie's "Fairness Formula" cuts taxes for the rich and education for the poor, do lawmakers have a better fix? Trump ...
New Jersey Democrats haven't come up with a unified plan for school funding, but they agree that Gov. Christie's proposal, which he calls the "Fairness ...
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 ...
School consolidation is a topic of debate in New Jersey. Proponents say the move will save money and improve education, but others bring up logistical ...
The tale of two rivers. Traveling across the Hudson for work costs you double in state income taxes. But if you commute across the Delaware, ...
The Lakewood school district is $12 million in debt. The proposed budget, which the school board condemned and the superintendent refused to certify, would cut ...
A cash crisis could equal cuts to staff and programs in Lakewood. What's forcing the drastic decisions. The governor says Atlantic City needs a state ...
President Obama ended more than a dozen years of No Child Left Behind — which critics called overbearing and over centralized. With the stroke of ...
Ahead of a post-Christmas sortie through Iowa, where he's rising in the polls, Christie's betting the farm on a win, place or show in New ...
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 ...
A grand jury investigates Senator Menendez. Plus, Cory Booker goes Hollywood. Schools demand freedom from the state, and the state issues a health alert.
The Paterson and Newark advisory school boards held a public session to update the communities about the status of state control over the school districts.
As directed by the state Supreme Court, the Christie administration is reviewing the formulas used to determine aid for schools.
Latest filing prompts speculation about arguments, alliances and justices hearing the case, not to mention the eventual decision.
In his attempt to prevent the state Supreme Court from 'legislating from the bench', Governor Christie nominated Morris County lawyer Anne Patterson to the state’s ...