Sunday, October 24, 2010

Schools Matter: Christie Halts State-Approved Construction Projects in Poorest Neighborhoods

Schools Matter: Christie Halts State-Approved Construction Projects in Poorest Neighborhoods

Christie Halts State-Approved Construction Projects in Poorest Neighborhoods

His Lardness continues to act in the interests of corporations and their foundations to shut down public education in poor neighborhoods in favor of cheap segregated charter test camps without libraries or the other resources that are standard for public schools in the leafy suburbs. As a result of litigation that goes back 20 years, New Jersey over the past decade had finally begun to address the criminal neglect of poor schools that was documented for the public by Jonathan Kozol in 1992 in Savage Inequalities. Now that effort to establish some equity is in jeopardy.

As the video report by NJN shows, one of those schools scheduled for replacement was a hundred year old relic