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The state of the Governor’s education agenda
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. (Mooney, NJ Spotlight)
