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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Katelew who wrote (139891)6/28/2010 7:34:29 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541791
 
I say this because we all, myself included, think in terms of expanding, enlarging, increasing.

Not in k-12 public education; at least not in Jersey. The whole game is about preserving what can be preserved before a reasonably decent suburban school system just gets dramatically worse from a thoughtless governor.

The opposite of your three word expansion bit above is simply getting better, offering a better education. Those plans are well back on the bookshelves now. And aren't likely to come back off for some time. At least not in this governor's term. And thanks to fears about the volatility of politics, I suspect not for sometime. It's going to be about who can you charge for what in order to keep a system going. The "public" in public education is increasingly evaporating.

In fact, in Jersey, the governor wants, while cutting public education, to put more tax dollars into private education, particularly charter schools.
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