Governor Chris Christie Signs Bill Overhauling Teacher Tenure in New Jersey

Under the revisions, signed on Monday by Gov. Chris Christie, tenure for public-school teachers in New Jersey will be harder to get, and firings will be easier to carry out.







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Cheats out — Stuy boss

Stuyvesant High School has a new principal — and she believes cheating isn’t an “ongoing” problem at the prestigious school.







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Food fight in Congress focuses on fresh vs. frozen produce in schools

Are canned pears the nutritional equivalent of a juicy fruit off the tree? House Republicans seem to think so. And their proposal to tinker with a program that serves fresh fruit and vegetables to children in select schools has touched off the ultimate food fight.

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SchoolBook: How to 'Talk Back' to Digital Deluge

More than 40 percent of teens in a recent survey said they felt "addicted" to their cellphones. The founder of Common Sense Media offers advice for parents who want to set boundaries on digital use at home. He says the adults have to model behavior they want children to follow, including taking their own "timeouts" from screens and phones.







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SchoolBook: Proposed Charters Get Public Hearings

Hearings are being held this month on charter schools that plan to open in the Bronx, on Staten Island and in East Harlem and Brooklyn in the fall of 2013. See the schedule and details.







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Keystone XL pipeline may threaten aquifer that irrigates much of the central U.S.

Jane Kleeb is a savvy activist who, Nebraska’s Republican governor once said, “has a tendency to shoot her mouth off most days.” A Florida native who moved to Nebraska in 2007 after marrying a rancher active in Democratic politics, she did as much as anyone to bring the massive Keystone XL crude oil pipeline to a halt last year.

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Christie gets tough on tenure

NEW JERSEY teachers will have a harder time getting — and then holding onto — tenure under a bill signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie Monday.



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Ed. administrator tapped to head prestigious Stuyvesant HS

City officials named an education administrator and parent to head its most prestigious public school in the wake of a widespread student cheating scandal. Jie Zhang, who started her schools career as a teacher in 1988, was tapped as interim chief of Stuyvesant HS in Manhattan. Zhang’s 15-year-old daughter...



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Better pay for better teachers?

The Issue: Whether merit-based pay would help keep good teachers in the NYC public-school system. *** “Merit Pay Matters” (Editorial, Aug. 2) highlights a fundamental flaw that has persisted in the US public-school system for decades — that being a lack of merit incentives for union teachers. Solutions exist, but the nagging...



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