Jersey Jazzman: Portrait of a Charter Cheerleader

Jersey Jazzman: Portrait of a Charter Cheerleader

Portrait of a Charter Cheerleader

by Duke

Derrell Bradford, Executive Director of the corporate "reform" shop, Better Education for Kids (B4K), has been pushing charter schools for years. But his Deputy Director's career highlights the very problem with charters Bradford doesn't want to acknowledge: namely, that they serve a far more affluent group of students with far fewer special needs than neighborhood schools.


Unfortunately, this same charter advocate, Shelley Skinner, has used her connections and media influence to obscure the problem: she has repeatedly stated that charter schools serve a disproportionate number of at-risk children, when research shows exactly the opposite.


Maybe that's why she has been rewarded with influential positions in Chris Christie's government. Here's her