Montclair NJ rejects corporate deformers!

[ellenrr]

This just in---Bloomfield Board of Education votes in resolution supporting moratorium on tests, evaluation, common core and key aspects of corporate education reform!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=305804036247193&id=151421161685482&fref=nf

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Tee-hee. Corporate "reform" enthusiast Jonathan Alter lives in Montclair.

Torture enthusiast, too. (Irony, anyone?)

One of the Chicago group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_alter

[NJCher]

2. bravo Montclair!

WHEREAS, the current standards-based system is a top-down authoritarian system that disregards the professional decision-making ability of classroom teachers and usurps the local control of educating the children of Bloomfield; and

Having lived in Montclair a good portion of my life, I can understand how this community rejected it.

All New Jerseyans should contact their representatives about this part, mentioned toward the end:

WHEREAS, the New Jersey State Assembly has introduced Assembly Bill A3081 and its counterpart in the Senate, S2154, which calls for a minimum of a two-year delay in the use of the PARCC assessment data for any student or school accountability purposes, and calls for the creation of a task force to analyze the potential effects of the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, the new teacher evaluation system, and the use of PARCC assessments.

It looks like my property taxes went up around 200 a month--probably because my town, the one next door, didn't fight the "unfunded mandate."


Cher