Chris Cerf

Governor Christie's new school funding formula was the focus of the state education chief's visit to a Bergen County school Monday.

New Jersey's acting education commissioner Chris Cerf says he will review whether the state's recently imposed salary cap for school superintendents has had an impact on school districts. Evidently that’s not going to happen. When I asked Governor Chris Christie about it today he replied, “Yeah, I’m not re-evaluating the superintendents’ cap.”

Following a gathering of New Jersey education officials and school administrators, acting state Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf commented on this week's Ohio high school shooting that left three students dead and others wounded.

Today, following a congregation of New Jersey's education officials and school administrators, acting state Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf commented on the deadly Ohio Chardon school shooting this week.

Coming on the heels of Governor Chris Christie's budget address in Trenton, school administrators from around New Jersey will be in Jackson Township in Ocean County next week to hear about policy changes that promise to improve the quality of education in our schools.

A new report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress finds Jersey ranks as one of the top states in the nation when it comes to 4th and 8th grade math and reading proficiency.

Reports of the death of a popular program of afterschool activities for Garden State kids were greatly exaggerated.

"The school funding formula we have now works because it's fair," says Democratic State Senate President Steve Sweeney. "It's not broken. It's just never been fully funded."

Jersey parents who are not satisfied with their child's public school can sign up to move them to another district, under the state's Interdistrict Choice program - but they've got to hurry.