New Jerey Becomes Battle Ground Over Charter Schools
Protestors occupied the New Jersey Department of Education Friday over the creeping charter school movement taking over the leafy suburban enclaves where most parents are happy with their children's public schools. These parents are fearful precious dollars will be siphoned from their quality public schools to a more privatized, market-based agenda under the guise of "school choice."
In fact, recently 3 out of 4 charter applications for NJ were rejected by the NJ DoE and it looks like Christie and Cerf finally have the pushback from the citizenry necessary to save one of the best public education systems in the country. It's not just the teachers and their unions under attack by the Christie administration, but now the