Jersey Jazzman: Does Chris Cerf Know What "Democracy" Means?

Jersey Jazzman: Does Chris Cerf Know What "Democracy" Means?:

Does Chris Cerf Know What "Democracy" Means?

by Duke

Local governance? Not in Camden:

Breaking every tie should always be done “in the best interest of the students,” Education Commissioner Chris Cerf said during a speech Tuesday, just days after the local board of education deadlocked on a significant vote. 

Cerf made the comment at the grand opening of a $12.5 million charter school in the heart of the city’s downtown, the Leap Academy University Charter School STEM campus.

The LEAP science, technology, engineering and mathematics school, in part, is meant to fill a void in the education available through the local school district, where 23 of the city’s 26 schools are 

de·moc·ra·cy

 noun \di-ˈmä-krə-sē\

plural de·moc·ra·cies

Definition of DEMOCRACY

1

a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority

b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

2

: a political unit that has a democratic government

3

capitalized : the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the United States Democracy

 — C. M. Roberts>

4

: the common people especially when constituting the source of political authority

5

: the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges

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