tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post7259610551573775292..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: Who Stands For New Jersey's Students?Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-49649009718636758082012-10-18T07:26:25.851-07:002012-10-18T07:26:25.851-07:00The NJ waiver is an absolute disaster and more so ...The NJ waiver is an absolute disaster and more so than what this article references. <br /><br />Do people in Priority and Focus schools know that they have to hand over 30% of their federal Title 1 funding to Cerf's RAC system? These schools have absolutely no say in how this money gets spent. It's to underwrite the RAC's - an unproven and still really undefined system that is supposedly going to turn disadvantaged schools into academic super stars. <br /><br />It's the needy students in needy districts that drive the very basis of federal funding that has always gone directly to the needy students in the needy schools. Now under Cerf's waiver, this money is being taken away from the schools!<br /><br />How can this be? So instead of addressing students on a more personal and direct basis as to their needs, we are now dependent on a distant level of bureaucracy. What happened to local control? <br /><br />It's one thing to have the state take away state funds. But this takes things to a whole new level - the State taking federal dollars away from disadvantaged kids to fund bureaucracies.<br /><br />How can federal law allow this?ad77https://www.blogger.com/profile/03474884758185177384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-21661019761124662962012-10-17T14:06:42.568-07:002012-10-17T14:06:42.568-07:00Working from Camden to Newark in the past year, I ...Working from Camden to Newark in the past year, I have found amazing local activists who stand for the students. Truly dedicated, determined, fearless advocates some of whom have children and many who do not - but who get the reasons for high quality public schools and get that the current policies will destroy any chance of preserving and improving the schools. These activists, especially in urban areas under state control get that the NCLB waiver will do more harm than good as the actions justified under the waiver give the state more sticks. These activists are organizing, gaining strength in numbers and conviction. Together we will force the changes necessary to preserve and improve our public schools. Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01003814941132010913noreply@blogger.com