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Schoenlank, Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative study examined school administrators' perceptions of the James Stronge teacher evaluation system, one of five approved evaluation systems by the New Jersey Department of Education from the Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey Act (TEACHNJ) in 2012. Fourteen administrators from a suburban district…
Descriptors: Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Practices
Mathis, William J. – 1977
The New Jersey Constitution requires that all students receive a "thorough and efficient" education. In Robinson v. Cahill, the New Jersey Supreme Court found that the state funding system and program monitoring systems were inadequate and ordered the legislature to correct these deficiencies. As a result, New Jersey has recently…
Descriptors: Accountability, Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
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Bihler, Charles H., Ed. – 1976
This guide is intended to aid New Jersey citizens concerned with the improvement of library media services based on the New Jersey Public Education Act of 1975, which provided for a thorough and efficient (TE) planning process to improve opportunities for all children. It is directed to the library media specialist, but can be used in teamwork…
Descriptors: Learning Resources Centers, Library Services, Media Specialists, Program Development
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Robert, Clare – Religion & Public Education, 1989
Summarizes recent state initiatives in values education, highlighting actions in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and California, that promote values education programs and policies. Legislatures, typically, have chosen personnel to promote moral education, or have passed resolutions, or added language to existing codes regarding the necessity of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Moral Development
Kolbe, Tammy; McLaughlin, Margaret J.; Mason, Loretta M. – Education Law Center, 2007
The Education Law Center (ELC) sought an independent review of special education funding in New Jersey as part of a larger group of studies intended to critique the cost study conducted by Augenblick and Palaich and Associates (APA) and the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) and inform the ongoing public debate. In doing so, ELC recognized…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Educational Finance, Policy Analysis, Program Effectiveness
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of County and Regional Services. – 1984
Legislation enacted in 1978 and 1982 in New Jersey stipulated that a uniform recordkeeping system be established to gather information on reported offenses against persons, school buildings, and property. This report details the extent of violence and vandalism in the public schools of the state for the first 6 months of 1983. Of 593 districts,…
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Discipline Policy, Drug Education, Educational Environment
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Tewel, Kenneth J. – Urban Review, 1991
Traces the three-year period (beginning in 1988) leading to the takeover of the Jersey City (New Jersey) public schools by the State Department of Education. Questions the wisdom of New Jersey's approach regarding failing school districts. The confrontation in New Jersey ended poorly for both the state and district. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Problems, Educational History, Educational Improvement
Cooperman, Saul – 1989
In the wake of January 1988 takeover legislation to improve education in the State of New Jersey, this paper describes and justifies the strict state three-tier monitoring system of school district educational standards. School districts that need improvement after the first level of monitoring must develop an improvement plan to overcome their…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role