Note to Cami: 100 excellent ways to create 100 excellent schools
Jersey Jazzman delivered yet another blistering critique of Cami Anderson's disastrous One Newark plan calling it "illogical, innumerate, secretive, and ill-conceived". Sir Duke once again fills his post with charts, graphs, data, links to studies—you know, actual proof—that this will probably go down as the biggest public policy boondoggle in NJ history. He pointed out that Cami likes to blame the backlash on the 'political season'. (Hmmm... sorta like Christmas? Is there a Black Friday where I get coupons for showing up early and complaining louder and longer?) Then ends with a link to a Bob Braun post which calls out many players on the opposite side of the issue for not taking more aggressive action sooner:
It is now June and no organization—not the Newark Teachers Union, not the New Jersey Education Association, not the Education Law Center, not the American Civil Liberties Union, no one—has taken aggressive court action to seek a temporary restraining order to stop this flawed plan that will cause real and irreparable damage to children in the city. Soon, within a matter of days, it will be too late to do anything. And Anderson, despite the optimistic hopes of some in the city, now has repeatedly said she will not resign and she will continue to bury the city under the weight of her “One Newark” plan.
Hey, guys—get real: Cami is gaming you and you don’t even know it. Despite what The Star-Ledger editorial board says about her, she is not politically naïve nor tone-deaf. She knows precisely what she is doing and she is winning.
Read Bob's entire post. He raises some excellent points. Stealing from JJ here, One Newark has all the makings of...
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| Hat tip to Jersey Jazzman |
While the parents and students of Newark are fighting the good fight, they can't do it alone. It's time the major players in this fight started making some real noise.
In the meantime, I thought I'd offer a little advice to the beleaguered superintendent. Unlike Marie Corfield: Note to Cami: 100 excellent ways to create 100 excellent schools: