New Spotlight Column: Cerf’s Decision to Leave NJ Commish Slot for Private Enterprise
February 18, 2014Amplify (Cerf’s New Gig) and the Common Core
February 20, 2014New WHYY column: Who Will Christie Choose to Replace Cerf?
Read it here:
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?
Here’s the full column.