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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Jersey Jazzman: Our Student Debt Crisis

Jersey Jazzman: Our Student Debt Crisis:

Our Student Debt Crisis

Congratulations to a great New Jersey teacher. Nice to see Milken money going to help teachers instead ofscrewing up their profession (those Milkens have made quite a mess of the education system down in Tennessee).

The source of the prize aside, I couldn't help but notice this:
Iannucci said he’s considering putting the money toward his $78,000 in student loan debt. He attended Seton Hall University, then graduated from Montclair State University with a degree in computer science. He later earned a master’s in educational leadership from Montclair State. [emphasis mine]
If the Milkens really want to help teachers, they'd put their money into lobbying for revisions to the tax code that