Christie Presses the Flesh — and His Case for Tenure Reform

Governor works town hall meeting, while legislators continue to work behind the scenes on two tenure reform bills

By John Mooney

Tenure reform, New Jersey style, took a few more twists and turns yesterday, with Gov. Chris Christie pressing the case in public while legislators and staffers continued to work in private on a couple of fronts.

The Christie push came at one of his town hall meetings, this one before more than 600 people in a Haddonfield middle school. He again invoked the example of just 17 teachers facing tenure charges as ineffective in the past decade, out of more than 100,000 in the classroom.

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