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Another Questionable Hire by Phil Murphy

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Trenton NJ, Another Murphy hire bites the dust . It seems the more past transgressions have been brought to light , according to Politico, Maryellen Cervenak, who was hired by the State Department of Education as the acting department director of the Professional Learning Network was fired after it was brought to their attention that she had been suspended when she was a teacher for, among other things, making fun of special education students.

Cervenak, who went by the last name of Lechelt, was suspended by the Edison school district for comments made in a group chat in 2015. According to NJ Advanced Media, the comments were made in a group chat and included to special needs students as “morons” and that they took the “tart cart” home. At the time she was suspended 120 days for both mocking special education students and making sexual comments in what she called a “beautifully filthy” teacher group chat .

This summer Maryellen Cervenak was hired for a leadership position in Gov. Phil Murphy’s Department of Education as the acting director of the department’s Professional Learning Network, a $70,000 position that involves visiting schools as a representative of the state and coordinating trainings, the state confirmed.

After reporters started making inquires about her hiring, the Department of Education fired her from the $70,000 a year position but refused further comment on the matter, citing personnel concerns. Her firing comes on the heels of the resignation of Marcellus Jackson from his position with the DOE after it came to light he had served jail time for bribery, and the resignation of Albert Alvarez from his post as the Schools Development Authority when accusations of sexual assault surfaced.

4 thoughts on “Another Questionable Hire by Phil Murphy

  1. What about Aronsohn?

  2. Yes, what about Aronsohn?

  3. So the NJDOE hired a teacher who mocked special ed kids WTF?
    Who voted for this ahole?

  4. Your fellow Ridgewood residents that’s who.
    Blind liberal leading the blind liberal…

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