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.

The eleventh hour insecurity of Homeland Security. Tougher school standards mean higher graduation rates. A volunteer soup kitchen where the hungry volunteer. And a groundbreaking ...

More students are graduating high school than ever before nationwide. New Jersey ranks second in the country for its graduation rate.

Christie hits the road with his budget proposal. Or was it a pension proposal? That ignored bridge is falling down. A Christie nominee may be ...

After a judge ruled the Christie administration must make full pension payments, the governor focused on pension reform during his budget address.

Crunch time for the Transportation Trust Fund. Opting out of the PARCC tests. Opting to help suspended students strive. And students concoct a cool process ...

Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan is sponsoring legislation that would postpone the use of PARCC test results for three years and ensure alternative programs are available for ...

NJ 101.5 presents a special discussion of the PARCC tests as part of its Town Hall series Thursday at 7 p.m.

Spurring development to save Atlantic City. Emergency repairs for schools? The money's gone. Enrolling in Obamacare. This time, it's different. And what on earth is ...

Members of Gov. Christie's appointed commission to study the use of standards-based testing have just a few weeks before their first recommendations are due.

Will the teachers' union budge on pensions? Will lawmakers impose a gas tax? Can emergency crews respond if an oil train combusts? And a powerful ...

The annual New Jersey Education Association Convention in Atlantic City is focusing on professional development, despite an ongoing strained relationship with Gov. Christie.

Police and citizens worlds apart. The rough race for Bergen County Executive. Cracking down on driving distracted. Heart attack. It's different for women. And maybe ...

NJEA President Wendell Steinhauer says that teacher leader programs would help keep teachers in the profession and in classrooms.

State takeovers, reforms, funding, testing. We're back to school. Gas prices rock, but not rock bottom. Fighting violence in Trenton. Fighting City Hall in Rutherford. ...

Teachers, students and administrators will be facing changes, including implementation of the common core and a new teacher evaluation system this school year.

Paying for the bridge scandal. How lawyers are making millions for taxpayers. Death on the turnpike. Are trucking laws putting us in harm's way? And ...

NJEA President Wendell Steinhauer said that the NJEA will do well in court with their lawsuit against Christie's pension plans.

Red ink. The Senate hears about the budget gap amid calls for a millionaire’s tax. Pension protest. Unions call on the governor to pay up. ...