At the yearly convocation, commissioner and staff review goals and chart progress of state’s education initiatives — one slide at a time
By John Mooney
It’s becoming an annual “State of the Schools” address, with the New Jersey’s education commissioner and top lieutenants exhaustively outline the administration’s plans and priorities for the coming year.
Yesterday, state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf’s so-called convocation before 400 school administrators gathered at Jackson Liberty High School lasted more than two hours and nearly 80 PowerPoint slides.
In the end, the presentation included both the familiar and the new, including a guest appearance of the old topic of early literacy. Yet Cerf was also reminded by those in the audience that even modest plans don’t always fall in place as smoothly as a slide show.
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