Schools Matter: Christie and Cerf's Transparent and Ridiculous Plan

Schools Matter: Christie and Cerf's Transparent and Ridiculous Plan:

Christie and Cerf's Transparent and Ridiculous Plan

by Jim Horn

photo by Bobby Bank/Getty

Before New Jersey’s hog-headed governor, Chris Christie, fired his first inept Education Comissioner, Mr. Schundler, that rascal claimed in public that New Jersey's No. 1-2 ranking on NAEP was irrelevant when it comes to judging what kind of job the schools are doing.

Having now moved on to hire a more polished corporate leech to attempt to dismantle New Jersey's public schools, the current Commissioner Cerf and his Wall Street team are attempting to create their own crisis to justify a complete charterization of public schools in New Jersey, while removing all regulations on charters and protections for teachers (such as tenure rights for charter school teachers) that might hinder the benefits to the hedge