Soon to be Education Commissioner (and former Jersey City mayor) Bret Schundler has told Jersey City's CREATE Charter School it's closing. Not because of funding cuts, but because of poor performance on standardized and other testing. In Schundler's letter to the school telling it of it's closing, he noted these sad statistics:
4.8 percent of the school's senior class was proficient in Language Arts last year and only 2.7 percent was proficient in math.
Schundler knows a little something about charter schools as he founded the Golden Door Charter School. In looking deeper at the facts in this case, we see one apparent big problem. The CREATE Charter School is run by former disgraced Jersey City councilman Steve Lipski, yes, he of the drinking problems and he of the urinating on people's heads at a concert in Washington D.C.
Geez, with leadership like Lipski's behind it it's no wonder the CREATE school has failed it's students.
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