West Side erupts. Where’s Cami?
Newark’s West Side High School erupts after a popular teacher is fired. Where is Cami Anderson, the state-appointed superintendent? At yet another education conference, this one in San Francisco, extolling the virtues of charter schools.
According to Twitter feeds coming from an individual and a charter school organization, she is in San Francisco at the annual summit of New Schools Venture Fund. She was conducting a seminar about “re-imagining urban school districts.” She was reimagining urban school districts while students at West Side High in her district were locked down and, according to some news reports, sprayed with mace.
Is this why she is paid nearly $300,000 a year by taxpayers from throughout New Jersey? To go to yet another conference?
The state-appointed superintendent of New Jersey’s largest school district just came back from a conference in Arizona where she managed to offend the people of Newark—again—by belittling their concern about her “One Newark” plan and threatening to unleash her brothers on her critics.
And Anderson is scheduled to attend yet another conference in July in Colorado at the Aspen Institute where she will make a presentation about a project she is doing for the West Side erupts. Where’s Cami? | Bob Braun's Ledger: