NJEA, Democrats wrongly balk at new push for schools reform
It's great to see David Tepper and Alan Fournier getting involved in the fight to improve New Jersey's schools. This Star-Ledger editorial is spot on:
It's fascinating to see the nervous response of establishment Democrats to the arrival of David Tepper on the political scene in New Jersey.
Tepper is a hedge fund manager from Livingston worth about $5 billion, and he's promising to throw a good chunk of that into a political fight over school reform with the New Jersey Education Association, the teachers union that has long been the colossus of Trenton.
…Tepper is a Democrat and Fournier is a Republican. The agenda they are pushing encompasses all the common ground between President Obama and Gov. Chris Christie: tenure reform, merit pay, charters schools, a relentless focus on student achievement and more power for parents. Tepper favors only a small pilot program to experiment with vouchers.
This is not radical stuff. It's the meat of a reform movement that is spreading across the nation, and is the one area where bipartisan agreement is both common and growing.
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NJEA, Democrats wrongly balk at new push for schools reform
Published: Sunday, October 23, 2011, 6:09 AM Updated: Sunday, October 23, 2011, 10:47 AM
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board The Star-Ledger
http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2011/10/njea_democrats_wrongly_balk_at.html
Jerry McCrea/The Star-LedgerTwo New Jersey hedge fund financiers have started a political action group to fund education reform in line with Gov. Christie's agenda. One of them, David Tepper, is pictured above helping N.J. first lady Mary Pat Christie in a food bank in a January photo.
It's fascinating to see the nervous response of establishment Democrats to the arrival of David Tepper on the political scene in New Jersey.
posted by Whitney Tilson at 8:03 PM
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