Smarick Eager to Accept Public Position of Power to Privatize New Jersey's Schools
His Lardness, Gov. Chris Christie, appointed another ideologue like himself, Bret Schundler, to run what has been up until now one of the best state systems of public education in the country. Highly unionized and highly funded, New Jersey has made a reputation for itself, one that the corporationists want to demolish.
To do their work for them, Christie and Schundler have called upon sludge tank propagandist, Andy Smarick, who offered this summary in 2008 of how to charterize the world. So here's the plan, introduced by Ken Libby:
To do their work for them, Christie and Schundler have called upon sludge tank propagandist, Andy Smarick, who offered this summary in 2008 of how to charterize the world. So here's the plan, introduced by Ken Libby:
This is part of an essay written in early 2008 by AEI/Fordham'sAndy Smarick, a former Bush II Domestic Policy Council member tasked with K-12 and higher education issues:
Here, in short, is one roadmap for chartering's way forward: First, commit to drastically increasing the charter market share in a few select communities until it is the dominant system and the district is reduced to asecondary provider. The target should be 75 percent. Second, choose the target communities wisely. Each should begin with a solid charter
