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New Spotlight Column: Cerf’s Decision to Leave NJ Commish Slot for Private Enterprise

Hot off the press, today’s column at NJ Spotlight:

Someone ought to give Chris Cerf a flak suit as he parachutes out of Gov. Chris Christie’s shrinking inner circle. New Jersey’s departing Commissioner of Education has a new gig at the education technology firm Amplify Insight, but warm wishes are scant.

Instead, critics are lobbing rocks at Cerf for two perceived transgressions: one, his shift to the private sector, particularly to a company with a sullied reputation in the Garden State, and two, his education agenda, which some regard as insufficiently deferential to traditional public schools.

Read the rest here.

Laura Waters

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