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Last week New Jersey Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf announced that he was leaving the Department of Education to head a new educational technology company called Amplify Insight, a unit of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

Questions whirled through cyberspace: Who is Gov. Christie going to nominate for Cerf’s replacement? Is Cerf leaving to distance himself from Christie’s Bridgegate debacle? Is Cerf joining Amplify in order to unethically profit from his Jersey connections as schools purchase technology necessary for new student assessments?

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