Graduate funding: I got it but don't want to accept it yet because I'm waiting on word from better graduate funding. How do I deal with this? I got accepted to my top choice for grad school in international relations! Excellent news. I also have been offered an awesome scholarship that covers tuitio...

Did I miss something? The State of California is in the hole $40 Billion, with no noticeable avenue left for paying of this debt, yet Assemblymember Tom Torlakson and State Superintendent Education Jack McConnell, decide to increase spending by another $20 milion to feed kids at failing schools as i...

While volunteering in my daughter's first grade class this morning, one of the boys - who was trying not to do his workbook - penciled an illustration on the cute bunny on his page. Peter Rabbit suddenly had a penis,......

The White House has demanded that Congress approve a bill strictly with war funding, but the Senate measure also includes a $52 billion, 10-year measure that would pay for higher-education benefits for military veterans, an $11 billion, 13-week extension of unemployment insurance, $1 billion for low...

Some 20/20 Hindsight Advice: If you are going to do a fund raiser for a group of teenagers, you might want to check in with them first to get a feel as to how much they are willing to get involved. To ask them, How do you feel about selling tickets to a show at $25 a pop? Oh, that would be hard for ...

You can now view your school district’s State Aid Profile based on Governor Jon Corzine’s school spending and state aid program. To help you understand Corzine’s plan and the State Aid Profile, we’ve created this post to guide you along using the Livingston school district as an example. Liv...

The Star-Ledger wrote in an editorial, School funding plan shows promise: Whether a child goes to school in Perth Amboy or Mountain Lakes makes no difference. The premise is that money should follow the child. It's hard to argue with that.It just doesn’t happen to be true. State aid does not “fo...