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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: NJDOE Is Run Like the CIA

Jersey Jazzman: NJDOE Is Run Like the CIA:


NJDOE Is Run Like the CIA

Remember when the NJDOE got caught making secret plans to overturn local control throughout the state? They must be nervous about getting found out again, because they are shutting down access to information any way they can:
The plan was for the city’s [Camden's] board of education to begin weighing three proposals for Hope Act schools Wednesday night. But the process was halted when legal and procedural questions were raised. 
Meeting without their lawyer present, the board balked at going into the first of two planned closed sessions. 
One advocacy organization, the Education Law Center, had asked the state to halt the review