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Back to School: NJ Schools face change as year begins; focus placed on 10 issues
Acting New Jersey Education Commissioner Chris Cerf recently reorganized the state Department of Education around four priorities for education reform: Academics, Performance, Talent, and Innovation.
The DOE will devote its resources to identifying what students should learn, how to prove they learned it, who will teach it to them, and how it will be taught. But those are not the only priorities facing students and staff as they head back to school.
Here’s a list of 10 education issues likely to get a lot of attention in the schoolhouse and the Statehouse during the 2011-12 school year… (D’Amico, Press of Atlantic City)
