Too many regulations are overloading New Jersey’s schools: Opinion
By Patrick J. Fletcher
and Daniel Fishbein
It’s an unsettling question, but we’re obliged to ask it. Has the rapidly accelerating pace of public education-related government mandates now become utterly unsustainable?
In just the past few years, New Jersey legislators have chosen to burden local school districts with the umbrella of AchieveNJ, which includes the recent TeachNJ tenure reform act that imposes upon us a new teacher and administrator evaluation system, with student achievement data included as part of the process.
And as if that weren’t enough, there’s also the new computer-based student evaluation system known as PARCC, as well as updated curriculum programs and textbooks related to the implementation of the Common Core Standards.
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It never ends and the schools receive no funding for all this regulation.
We are over-regulated in our schools. We are doing fine and do not need government intervention.