Posted on 07/14/2019 11:56:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A thousand miles from Newark, in a tiny old school building tucked behind a Christian church, Cary Booker delivered the bad news.
It was spring of 2011, and Omni Prep Academy, the Tennessee charter school co-founded and led by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker’s older brother, could no longer pay its kindergarten and first-grade teachers, the elder Booker announced, according to former teachers who were in the room.
The financial woes weren’t a shock — when the school opened the previous fall it provided no books, no curriculum and almost no training for its novice educators, former teachers said in interviews with NJ Advance Media. But now the charming and charismatic face of the school offered no solution.
Instead, Cary Booker cried, former teachers said. The staff was largely unmoved and began quitting weeks later. […]
Omni Prep, which primarily served minority children in one of America’s poorest metro areas, was ordered to close by Shelby County Schools in 2016. Its appeal to the state was rejected, with a top Tennessee education official writing the school “continually failed to meet the most minimal of performance standards.”
But rising from these ashes the following year was Cary Booker, who would go on to land a top education job in New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration.
After working as a policy consultant on Murphy’s campaign in 2017, Cary Booker became the administration’s senior education adviser in 2018, earning $120,000. …
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Nepotism and corruption dragging Jersey down further.
If their corruption could drag them below sea level.........
Will declare racism did it. (now back to work).
... If their corruption could drag them below sea level.........
Then NJ would flip over, like Guam, and capsize.
Hasn’t that always been the case in the Sopranos state?
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