Christie was not short on ambition when it came to education, but how did he fare on his own promises?
By John Mooney
On the last day of its session yesterday, New Jersey’s state legislature passed one pilot bill to open up a dozen “renaissance schools” and another to allow districts to move school elections to November.
It was an anticlimactic end to a year that Gov. Chris Christie said would bring sweeping changes to public education.
Still, pension and health benefit reform and a 2 percent cap on school taxes are no small accomplishments, and the governor helped drive the debate over issues like tenure reform, merit pay, charter schools, and school funding — all of which are yet to be resolved.
More>>