Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Jersey Jazzman: Top-Secret Reformers!

Jersey Jazzman: Top-Secret Reformers!:

Top-Secret Reformers!

The corporate education "reform" movement here in Jersey is hiding more secrets than a James Bond villain. For example: who is approving all these new charters?
The DOE has only a handful of staffers who oversee charter schools and it can’t carefully review every application it gets on its own. This year, a record 58 candidates sought to open charters.
So to help with the painstaking selection effort, the state enlisted more than a dozen unpaid volunteers, experts on charters and education who reviewed the applications