News Stories

2005 News Stories

EARLY EDUCATION (PRESCHOOL)

Study Shows Abbott Preschool Program Raising School Readiness Skills (12/7/2005)

Study Shows Abbott Building Nation's Best Pre-K Workforce (9/16/2005)

Abbott 2006 Regulations Undermine Pre-K Program (8/12/2005)

Report on New Jersey's Abbott Preschool Program Shows Large Gains in Classroom Quality and Student Progress (5/20/2005)

State Ordered to Fully Fund Abbott Pre-K Programs (5/19/2005)

New Brunswick Appeals Pre-K Budget Cuts (2/25/2005)

K-12 PROGRAMS, REFORMS and FUNDING

Coalition Makes Recommendations to Improve Trenton Public Schools (12/20/2005)

Commissioner Finds Segregation Persists in Englewood (11/29/2005)

An Education Action Agenda for the New Governor (11/16/2005)

State to Reconvene Abbott Evaluation Work Group (11/10/2005)

Court Ordered Abbott Management Plan Falls Short (10/26/2005)

NJDOE Releases Draft Abbott Management Plan (10/6/2005)

NJDOE Issues Incomplete Abbott Regulations (10/6/2005)

Abbott Secondary Initiative Moves Forward (9/26/2005)

ELC Calls for More Input on Draft FY2006 Abbott Rules (9/22/2005)

Urban Charter Schools Demand Abbott Remedies (9/19/2005)

State's Commitment to Urban School Children Put to the Test (9/9/2005)

NJDOE Ordered to Prepare Abbott Management Plan (8/9/2005)

Abbott 2006 Regulations on Hold (8/4/2005)

Draft Regulations Violate Abbott Rulings (7/15/2005)

NJDOE Suspends Bid for Abbott Evaluation (7/14/2005)

State Board Finds Rural Districts Can't Provide "T & E" Under School Funding Law (6/21/2005)

ELC Sues NJDOE for Having No Plan to Manage Abbott (6/16/2005)

Abbott Secondary Inititative Launched (5/9/2005)

DOE School Review Process is Incomplete and Fails to Include Parents (4/11/2005)

NJDOE Solicits Proposals for Abbott Evaluation (4/6/2005)

DOE Schedules Visits of Schools in Corrective Action (4/4/2005)

ELC Calls on Legislature to Revise Budget (3/29/2005)

ELC Calls for Aid Increase to All School Districts (3/6/2005)

Guide to K-12 Abbott Regulations Now Available (3/4/2005)

New DOE Guidelines on Long Range Facilities Planning (2/4/2005)

Commissioner Finds Magnet School Creating "New Pattern of Segregation" in Englewood (2/25/2005)

Abbott Chief Maps-Out Goals to Senate Committee (2/7/2005)

"Quality Counts" Touts Progress in Abbott Districts (1/6/2005)

ELC Joins Amicus Brief in Baltimore School Funding Case (1/25/2005)

Commisioner Adopts 2005 Abbott Regulations (1/23/2005)

Task Force: Education Off-Limits at Constitutional Convention (1/5/2005)

SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM

Support Builds for School Construction Funding (12/22/2005)

NJ Supreme Court Directs State to Cost-Out Facilities Projects (12/19/2005)

Conference Examines Urban School Facilities Projects (11/22/2005)

NJ Supreme Court Hears Argument for More Construction Funds (11/9/2005)

Campaign for School Construction Funding Grows (10/11/2005)

ELC Asks High Court to Replenish School Building Fund (8/11/2005)

SCC To Stop Work on over 200 Urban School Projects (7/27/2005)

State Urged to Free-Up School Construction Funds for All Needy Districts (5/19/2005)

IG Report on SCC Problems: What Took the State So Long? (4/22/2005)

ELC Calls on Inspector General to Lift Freeze on All School Construction Projects (4/20/2005)

Bill Pending to Create "School Construction Review Commission" (4/6/2005)

Districts to Survey Condition of Pre-K Provider Buildings (2/14/2005)

STUDENT RIGHTS

NJ Appeals Court Holds District Liable for Bullying (12/20/2005)

Irvington Student Sues to Secure Abbott Rights (12/7/2005)

U.S. Supreme Court: Parents Have Burden of Proof in Special Education Disputes (11/17/2005)

State Board Adopts Rules on Student Conduct and Discipline (9/26/2005)

State Board Delays Ending SRA (8/12/2005)

"Mend Don't End" Alternative Assessment (7/23/2005)

ELC and Other Advocates Provide Special Education Comments to NJDOE (6/30/2005)

ELC Files Amicus Briefs in Key Special Education Cases (6/7/2005)

State Board of Education Takes Steps to Insure Racial Integration in Englewood Desegregation Case (6/2/2005)

ELC and NJ NAACP File "Friend of the Court" Brief in Englewood School Desegregation Case (5/10/2005)

NJDOE Must Answer for District's Failure to Educate Student with Dyslexia (4/25/2005)

ELC Files "Friend of Court" Brief in Landmark Bullying Case (4/12/2005)

ELC Urges State Board to Rework Regulations on Student Conduct and Discipline (4/6/2005)

Appellate Court Firms-Up State's Commitment to Alternative Education (1/24/2005)

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