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Friday, December 2, 2011

Jersey Jazzman: Charter Churn

Jersey Jazzman: Charter Churn:

Charter Churn

Darcie twitter-pointed to this interview with Chris Christie, where he made a truly amazing statement:


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Caller: Governor, I'm from Cherry Hill, NJ, and we have high performing school districts. My question for you is, why would your administration have a charter school accepted in Cherry Hill? We have some of the best schools in the state, and now we have this charter school, which should not have been approved in the first place. You've got an organization that's running a ministry for ex-offenders, which is zoned to be on the same site as the charter school. And additionally, we had a gentleman who was living on the site, who robbed several houses in our neighborhood. Also, there's one letter of recommendation that was in the application which appears to be falsified. Why