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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Democracy: Only For The RIGHT Kind Of People

Jersey Jazzman: Democracy: Only For The RIGHT Kind Of People:


Democracy: Only For The RIGHT Kind Of People

New Jersey Senator Ron Rice is a true patriot:
Paterson would gain control of its public school system for the first time in 21 years under legislation introduced by Democrats that also would limit future state takeovers to five years, lawmakers announced Friday.
"It's time for the state to admit that the prolonged takeover of a local school district is a failed experiment, and it's time to return the school districts that have languished under state control back to the people in those school districts," said state Sen. Ronald Rice, D-Essex, who has sponsored the bill with Nellie Pou, D-North Haledon.
Newark and Jersey City are also under some level of state oversight — a program that has