Goofy In Garden State

Accuracy in Academia ^ | May 3, 2010 | Bethany Stotts

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Goofy In Garden State

Bethany Stotts, May 3, 2010

Amid record-level turnout, New Jersey residents recently voted down 58% of school district’s proposed budgets (and proposed tax increases), reported USA Today on April 21. “Districts on the losing end must now work with municipal officials to craft a funding solution by May 19. Layoffs and other cuts are likely,” it states.

Republican Governor Chris Christie has called for a reduction of $820 million in education funding amid a $10.7 billion deficit, reported Terrence Dopp for Businessweek on April 29.

Amid the pending cuts and layoffs, thousands of students took to the streets in different areas of New Jersey to protest against cuts to education funding.

Predictably, one of academia’s leftist professors championed the “democratic” actions of those students who took to the streets. “If these protests had taken place in China, Russia, or Iran, officials would be celebrating them as an advance for democracy,” argued Hofstra University professor Alan Singer on April 28. “What they fail to realize is that the struggle for democracy is going on right here.”

“And the children shall lead,” he writes on Huffington Post. “They were in the front lines of the Civil Rights movement,” he continues. “They have marched against war, hunger, and child labor.”

“They are the hope and future that President Obama keeps promising.”

“[Princeton University’s] Wilson School professor Richard Keevey said that schooling, to which the state budget currently allocates $11.1 billion, represents the ‘largest single component of the budget,’” wrote Molly Brean for the Daily Princetonian on March 11.

Hofstra’s press room describes Singer as “a professor of secondary education and the director of social studies education."...

[maddogconservative]

Americans tend to protest if you take something away from them.

Anyway, thank goodness for Christie. He’s the only d@mn conservative in the GOP today.

Of course maybe if there was a sales tax on texting, the teens would wipe out the budget shortfall by themselves :)

[Frenchtown Dan]

It’s about time these budgets got voted down to the extent that they did.

Only problem is that the school boards and town councils, and even the state can override the vote, and pass their budget anyway.

The vote doesn’t mean all that much.

[Dr. Sivana]

So New Jersey’s got TWO profs named Singer who are bad news (baby killer Peter Singer being the other one)

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Teachers need to explain why their students reading skills have basically stayed the same in spite of a doubling of the budget.