More proof of the Double Standard designed to destroy the public schools in America.
Christie, in his typical bully style, makes clear that he doesn’t care what the people of Newark think. He likes Cami Anderson and that is all that matters. He just reappointed her for another one-year term.
Anderson is paid nearly $300,000 a year. In 2011, Christie capped superintendents’ salaries at $125,000-175,000, depending on the size of the district.
Charter school leaders and Cami Anderson are exempt from the state salary cap.
Lyndsey Layton wrote a compelling account in the “Washington Post” about Governor Chris Christie’s calamitous and non-productive attempt to burnish his credentials as a school reformer in Newark.
Five years ago , Christie boasted that he would turn Newark into a national model of school reform. He and then-Mayor Cory Booker persuaded Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to donate $100 million for such reforms as merit pay and charters. Christie and his then-state Commissioner Chris Cerf.
What’s happened in the past five years has not enhanced Christie’s reputation as a reformer. His appointee as superintendent, Cami Anderson, has alienated students, educators, parents, the clergy, and legislators. Her plan, One Newark, was imposed without community support. Ras Baraka was elected mayor in large part because of Anderson’s unpopularity.
“Five years after Christie launched what could have been a career-defining policy initiative for an aspiring future president, city leaders are in revolt. On…
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