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Friday, October 12, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Christie Hates Teachers, Not Just Unions

Jersey Jazzman: Christie Hates Teachers, Not Just Unions:


Christie Hates Teachers, Not Just Unions

This is a zombie lie about Chris Christie that will not die:
New Jersey Education Association secretary treasurer Marie Blistan says public schools are the gateway for kids to reach their fullest potential, but Christie, “Has put targets on teachers’ backs. He has made teachers the enemy of the general public. He is also working very hard to separate private and public unions……….He is putting us in a position where we all need to fight for our own memberships and while we’re all fighting each other, in 14 months he’s going to come in a get re-elected. It’s his scheme to get re-elected and we cannot let that happen. We cannot let that man separate us.”
Blistan also took aim at Christie’s “New Jersey Comeback.”
She says, “It is in fact nothing more than a fabrication of an over-active imagination and it is a 

Another Broadie Fails: Brizard in Chicago

On the night of the VP debate, right at the end, this story breaks:
The CEO of Chicago Public SchoolsJean Claude Brizard,  is out, according to the mayor’s office.
Spokesperson Sarah Hamilton says that Brizard will be replaced by Chief Education Officer Barbara Byrd-Bennett.
 She called the decision to leave, “mutual.”
 Brizard had been in the position for approximately 17 months.
This is huge.

The Chicago teachers strike was a gigantic blow to reformy types everywhere. The CTU and their dynamo of a leader, Karen Lewis, went to war for Chicago's students - not for the teachers, but their students. Understand