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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Schools Matter: Christie's Starvation Diet for Schools Ruled Uncontitutional

Schools Matter: Christie's Starvation Diet for Schools Ruled Uncontitutional

Christie's Starvation Diet for Schools Ruled Uncontitutional

As the Governor's girth grows at a pace that is only exceeded by that of his ego, and as he applies his ham-handed surgical procedure for economic banding to New Jersey schools, the Courts have finally stepped in to challenge Christie's attempted extermination of public education through starvation. New Jersey Abbot Districts, those with the poorest children in the state, have been particularly hard hit for a reason.

When towns like Edison with large numbers of poor children have their State education funding cut by 55 percent in one year (see below), that puts them on the fast track to privatization via segregated corporate charter schools. No longer are the oligarchs and the bottom feeding hedge funders working the angles of Wall Street content to wait any longer for AYP to work its relentless formula toward privatization of urban America. These leeches are eager to fast track corporate takeover of schools based on a crisis created by a the Koch-headed