“NO COMMENT” WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER
Bruce Baker is a professor at Rutgers University who writes an informative blog called School Finance 101. He presented some descriptive analysis of New Jersey charter schools in a post, and ended up being asked to comment on the data by a reporter. The same reporter dutifully asked the New Jersey Charter Schools Association (NJCSA) to comment on the analysis.
The NJCSA describes itself as “the leading statewide advocate for charter public schools in New Jersey and a principal source of public information about charter schools in the state.” The organization issued the following response to Baker’s analysis:
The New Jersey Charter Schools Association seriously questions the credibility of this biased data. Rutgers University Professor Bruce Baker is closely aligned with teachers unions, which have been vocal opponents of charter schools and have a vested financial interest in their ultimate