As Chris Christie and Bruce Springsteen continue their love fest here in New Jersey, more than 60 percent of school districts in the
state are still closed and many have no heat or are in dangerous and precarious conditions. What's next for education reform and RTTT in NJ? Before NJ goes the way of NOLA, time to get ahead of the next tsunami of closures, privatization and union busting that no Springsteen song can stop. Christie might be happy he finally got to meet Bruce, but he is still the same bully who finally got to hang out with the cool kids for a while.
Like with any bullies, you have to stand up to them and that is what New Jersey will have to do as corporate education reformers try to capitalize on the situation by adhering to the shock doctrine. Only this time, as
Susan O'Hanian says, it will be the shock doctrine in reverse. New Jersey's strong public school advocates and diverse,
