NJ gov pushes public-private school pilot program

Geoff Mulvihill:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie added a new element Thursday to his efforts to give children in the state's lowest-performing school districts a better education while keeping the costs to taxpayers down.

He proposed letting local school boards hand control of some so-called "transformation schools" to education management organizations, possibly including for-profit firms.

The proposal is one of several ideas Christie is pushing to try to expand options for students in troubled school districts.

"None of these things are silver bullets," he said. The governor framed the idea as an experiment that could offer lessons to other schools.

At first, no more than five of the privately run schools across the state would be allowed - and they would go only in places where the local school boards want them.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 13, 2011 1:35 AM
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