Data, Data, Data? Dissecting & Debunking NJDOE’s State of the Schools Message
Time again for an NJ State of the Schools Address, as reported HERE in NJ Spotlight (with absolutely no critical question/reporting whatsoever! More or less spoon fed regurgitation).
As I’ve written a number of times on this blog, state officials in New Jersey have decided on specific marketing/messaging plan in order to support current policy initiatives. Those policy initiatives involve:
As I’ve written a number of times on this blog, state officials in New Jersey have decided on specific marketing/messaging plan in order to support current policy initiatives. Those policy initiatives involve:
- expanding NJDOE authority to impose desired “reforms” (charter/management takeover, staff replacement, etc.) on specific schools otherwise not under their direct authority.
- cutting funding from higher poverty, higher need districts and shifting it toward lower poverty, lower need ones.
- expanding charter schooling and promoting other “innovations” in high poverty concentration schools.