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Monday, June 4, 2012

Schools Matter: Stopping Christie's Corporate Feeding Frenzy in Camden

Schools Matter: Stopping Christie's Corporate Feeding Frenzy in Camden:


Stopping Christie's Corporate Feeding Frenzy in Camden

A former NJ DOE employee continues to send us news of from his/her former workplace, where incompetent and corrupt corporate toadies now pretend to do the work once done by educators and administrators concerned with the welfare of children and their education.   To demonstrate the point, see what is happening in Camden and other New Jersey areas blighted by poverty.

If it were not for organizations like the Education Law Center in Newark, the corporate raiders running the DOE would have already turned over urban public education in New Jersey to the corporate foundations and hedge fund managers to feed upon, as they use their unmonitored charter schools to miseducate, to culturally sterilize, and to behaviorally neuter the children of the poor.

Below is the Camden story from the Courier-Post Online, and below that is David Sciarra's letter referenced in the piece:

The Education Law Center is questioning a request for proposal made under the Urban Hope Act, and approved by the school board earlier this month.
The ELC, which advocates for poor urban districts, including Camden,