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Summit Public Schools’ Worst Financial Nightmare: Hosting a Charter School
September 26, 2012As someone who teaches School Finance for Montclair State University's Graduate School of Education, has performed consulting serv...
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Public Charter School Program
January 1, 2012History and Background This policy critique focuses on Titl...
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School Vouchers: Subtractive Education
November 30, 2011The current school voucher bill is based on the Opportunity Scholarship Act which was known as New Jersey Senate bill S1872 and propos...
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How Smaller Class Size Affects Student Achievement: A Literature Review of the STAR project and other studies
November 13, 2011Research concentrating on class size is important because the findings have largely concluded that smaller class size leads to increas...
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Diseconomies of Scale: Why Size of Large School Districts Adds Cost
September 28, 2011Proponents of mayoral control frequently argue that concentrating decision-making power over the school system within the mayor’...
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The Adverse Impact of a Charter School
September 14, 2011The adverse financial impacts of having a charter school locate in Summit would include but are not limited to: • State law w...
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How State Dominated Educational Systems Level Down Accountability and Increase Costs -- Part 2 of 2
August 29, 2011California While the California Department of Education has the overall responsibility to administer educati...
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How State Dominated Educational Systems Level Down Accountability and Increase Costs - Part 1
August 22, 2011The United States Constitution bestows plenary authority to govern education on the states rather than the federal government. A...
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Does Mayoral Control Provide a Governance Structure that is well suited for our Schools?
August 10, 2011Introduction In terms school reform, accountability is not possible if a school district lacks the proper co...
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Using Critical Race Theory to Frame an Understanding of the Education Debt
July 31, 2011In their ground breaking article, Ladson-Billings and Tate introduced critical race theory (CRT) to education and explained...
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How the New Jersey and New York State School Finance Formulae Create Educational Equity Gaps: Part Five of a Five Part Series
July 11, 2011Part Five of a Five Part Series Conclusion Although the school funding formulae for New Jersey and New York are largely ...
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How the New Jersey and New York State School Finance Formulae Create Educational Equity Gaps: Part Four of a Five Part Series
July 5, 2011New York. Although the New York State school finance formula seems conceptually simple, its structure is complex whic...
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How the New Jersey and New York State School Finance Formulae Create Educational Equity Gaps (Part 3 of a 5 part series)
July 2, 2011Continuation: Part 3 of a 5 part series: State Finance Formulae Data New Jersey. ...
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How the New Jersey and New York State School Finance Formulae Create Educational Equity Gaps: Part 3 of a 5 part series
June 29, 2011Part three of a five part series: State Finance Formulae Data New Jersey. The New Jersey s...
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Part 2 of 5 Part Series: How the New Jersey and New York State School Finance Formulae Create Educational Equity Gaps
June 23, 2011Part 2 of 5 Part Series New York. In 1978, several property-poor Long Island, New York City, and other large urban ...
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How the New Jersey and New York State School Finance Formulae Create Educational Equity Gaps: First of a Five Part Series
June 15, 2011The rising power of state government (Fusarelli & Cooper, 2009) over education has grown from the states’ increas...
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A Superior Alternative to Tracking or Detracking
June 7, 2011To solve the challenges confronting our nation so that we can continue to improve our quality of life, we must improve education for a...
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The Adverse Impact of a Charter School
May 22, 2011The adverse financial impacts of having a charter school locate in Summit would include but are not limited to: State la...
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Penalties of Scale: Why Large School Districts Need to Disaggregate
May 15, 2011Proponents of mayoral control frequently argue that concentrating decision-making power over the school system within the mayor’...
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Summit College Club Book Sale to Take Place April 13th - April 17th
March 30, 2011The annual Summit College Club Book Sale will be held this year at American Legion Post 433, located at 357 Elkwood Avenue in New Prov...
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Glen Ridge: Creating an Autonomous Public School District
December 20, 2010Whether to Secede? Unfunded state and federal mandates are strangling the Glen Ridge Public Schools as well as traditio...
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Subtractive Education: New Jersey's School Voucher Proposal
August 28, 2010The State Legislature has introduced New Jersey Senate bill S1872 entitled the Opportunity Scholarship Act which would create a five yea...
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School Vouchers: Choosing to Level Down Education
August 28, 2010The Opportunity Scholarship Act otherwise known as New Jersey Senate bill S1872 would create a statewide voucher program for certain publ...
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Tax Expenditure Limits (TELs) Take Their Toll on Education
August 28, 2010The major question confronting New Jersey's educational system is most likely whether the state should implement a 2.5% cap on local ...
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Sauce for the "Goose" Should be Sauce for the "Gander" When Trenton is Cooking Property Tax Legislation
August 28, 2010Shouldn't the sauce for goose be the same sauce for gander especially when Trenton is cooking legislation to reduce property taxes? But i...