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Friday, December 30, 2011

Jersey Jazzman: Boo-Friggin'-Hoo

Jersey Jazzman: Boo-Friggin'-Hoo:

Boo-Friggin'-Hoo

Regrets... I've had a few...

Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday said that not getting his proposed public education overhaul through the Legislature is his biggest regret of 2011.
The governor wants to implement merit pay for teachers, take away some of the job protections provided by tenure and to use publicly funded scholarships to send children in failing public schools to private schools. None of those measures has picked up much traction in the Legislature.
“The biggest disappointment is that we didn’t get any education reform and we really need