Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Perth Amboy: Enough Is Enough

Jersey Jazzman: Perth Amboy: Enough Is Enough:


Perth Amboy: Enough Is Enough

A quick note on Perth Amboy, NJ, the new center of education reforminess in America:

Janine Caffrey - hypocritical anti-tenure crusader and PA's superintendent - has been at war with members of her own Board of Education for months.

Members of the PA Board of Education voted to remove Caffrey based on an evaluation of her performance she says was too late to count against her. The board counters that she was late (around 11:00 on the video) in submitting her portion of the evaluation.

When the board took the vote, they had to invoke a "doctrine of necessity" because too many board members had family employed by the district. Caffrey and three other BOE members missed the vote because they were