Star-Ledger: Privatizers? What Privatizers?
Star-Ledger Editorial Board meeting
Whatever you think about ACTING NJDOE Commissioner Chris Cerf's nomination, this sentence by the Star-Ledger editorial board is simply absurd:
Sen. Ron Rice (D-Essex) started this ball rolling. He insists that Cerf is at the center of some apocalyptic conspiracy by hedge fund managers to take over public schools and privatize them for profits. [emphasis mine]Yeah, about that crazy "conspiracy":
The three of the four virtual charters currently up for approval have two things in common: they are going to be managed by K12 Inc., and they will be based in Newark (the fourth, based in Monmouth County, also is reportedly aligned with K12; it appears to be replicating services already provided by an agency in Monmouth for