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Monday, February 18, 2013

Jersey Jazzman: More Paterson School Chicanery

Jersey Jazzman: More Paterson School Chicanery:


More Paterson School Chicanery

The City of Paterson, New Jersey, is very lucky to have a journalist keeping an eye on the nonsense being imposed on its school system by the reformy NJDOE. Joe Malinconico's posts for The Alternative Press, an independent hyper-local, are invaluable for unlocking the secrets of the "reforms" that are being implemented by Commissioner Chris Cerf and his merry band of Broad Foundation-backed interns and consultants.

Here are another couple of pearls Maliconico has uncovered:
After more than 20 years as the principal at School 11, Paula Santana was transferred to a new job last summer. 
City education officials put her in the new position of “principal on assignment” at the district’s administrative offices at 90 Delaware Avenue and they kept her annual salary at $143,156.
Now Santana is fighting to get her old job back and one of arguments in the legal petition she filed with the New Jersey Department of Education last September is that there was nothing to do in the new