Note to the Governor: Trying to re-write a large and complex proposal over a long weekend when so much is at stake is a fool's errand. Errors creep in and there is the danger of making spur-of-the moment changes that have not been well thought out. Also why did NJ not send a delegation to the Technical Assistance Workshop? 41 other states did. It might have helped.From the link above:
Schundler couldn't pick up the phone? Seriously?The workshop was held in Minneapolis, was open to the public, and included a conference call option.
Hold my calls...
You only need the stinking training if you really want to win. I'm guessing that Christie went through the RTTT process to placate his critics, but really didn't want to do something that would bolster public education.
ReplyDeleteI'm back and forth on that, because there were positives to both winning and losing:
ReplyDeleteIf NJ won, Christie gets a lot of money to implement "reforms" that the NJEA doesn't want, and he gets to preen that he won the money without their help, so he really has the kids' best interests at heart.
If NJ lost without all this Schundler nonsense, Christie would have been able to point fingers at the NJEA and say they were the roadblock to getting more funds, using that as a justification to cut state aid further because we now have less money.
As it stands, he'll still use this as a justification to slash funds - he just doesn't get to pick on the union nearly as much.
But don't worry - soon, someone tangentially connected to the NJEA will send a stupid cut-and-paste joke about Christie in an email somewhere and he'll get into a hissy fit. The press will tut-tut at this appalling lack of decorum and stand idly by while another 10,000 teachers are axed from the payrolls.
Unless we get together and stop this idiocy once and for all.