Christie's Totally Awesome School Plan
Courtesy of the Star-Ledger's Tom Moran, here's the latest look into the reformy brain of Chris Christie:
So we finally get a peek at the master plan: Chris is going to fire "ineffective" teachers from the public schools. Simultaneously, he's going to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from those same schools. He's also going toQ. And is tenure reform the most important part of that?A. I see tenure, merit pay and OSA as a bundle. I’d like to see them all go together. By repairing the tenure system, we’ll be able to get rid of some ineffective teachers, but then we’ve got to get effective ones in there and it’s going to be years and years. So that’s why I think OSA is such an important part, and increasing charter schools in urban areas, so that those kids don’t get lost while the fixes of tenure and merit pay are fixing the system in a 10-year horizon.