New Jersey employs a brand of education politics that is not renowned for its nuance or subtlety, so let’s credit New Jersey Education Association Director Vincent Giordano with raising the bar. In an interview on the New Jersey Capitol Report over the weekend, Giordano was pressed on the timely subject of a legislative proposal there to[Read More…]
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Political payback for Dem defenders of choice
For sharing a stage with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to urge passage of a tax credit scholarship bill to benefit low-income students, for pushing an expansion of charter schools in some of Camden’s most depressed neighborhoods, Democratic power broker George Norcross finds himself the target of attack ads engineered[Read More…]
N.J. school board president: Teachers unions need a strategy makeover
When a school board president tells the New Jersey Education Association that its lobbyists and spokespeople “appear conditioned to defend the status quo with Pavlovian predictability,” it’s a clear sign there is more nuance to the debate over education reform than the union is willing to acknowlege. Laura Mercer, a former college[Read More…]