From Mark Magyar on a Governors’ Summit held yesterday in Newark:
The biggest regret for New Jersey’s former governors is their inability to fundamentally improve the quality of urban education during their time in office, despite spending more money per student than any other state…
[Jim] McGreevey, who noted that he counsels incarcerated women who can’t read, said “Frankly, if education was failing so miserably for white affluent children, we would have had a revolution. There are best practices, and we know what works and what doesn’t work. The problem is we are tied to a system that is ossified and preserves the status quo at the expense of entrepreneurial efforts. And when you see what Mayor Bloomberg has done in New York City, you see that we need more experimentation.”
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Funny how they avoid taking credit for the state's looming pension insolvency, weak credit ratings, rotting infrastructure, generous public worker contracts, lop-sided bargaining rules and unsustainable tax structure.
Biggest laugh: Tom Kean's insistence that shared services is the taxation cure-all.