Christie's town hall tour hits Somerville while the public gets an earful on the budget. Measuring student progress, not teacher performance? Microbeads: Smoothing your skin ...

The state's Education Department wants to use student growth on standardized tests to help evaluate teachers. The NJEA says that's flawed.

Pensions and PARCC testing top today's town hall. A new police precinct planted where crime hits hardest. Reorganizing hospital care in Newark. The health effects ...

Many teachers in New Jersey have said they're not adequately prepared for the job so the Department of Education will implement changes to try to ...