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Will Betsy DeVos’ focus on school choice impact the house pricing in good school districts (e.g., Princeton, Millburn, Tenaly)? My wife and I were looking to buy a new house NJ, but I don't know if we should wait to see how this potential new policy impacts the price. Any thoughts?
My gut says she won't be confirmed. She'll be the one sacrificial lamb of the nominees.
Those towns mentioned have little to no charter options because the publics are so good and the state supplements a small or zero percent of the cost because of the high socioeconomic stats. Residents are not looking for other options.
Maybe more of a boost for towns like Montclair where families would love to get supplemented for Kimberly Montclair tuition. Or englewood where many send to parochial or Dwight englewood.
Interested in others thoughts.
My gut says she won't be confirmed. She'll be the one sacrificial lamb of the nominees.
Maybe yes, maybe no.
Because she and her family have derived virtually of their income from selling Amway's questionable merchandise and extremely questionable distributorships for that merchandise, perhaps she will be confirmed.
Who knows?
Perhaps some segments of the GOP Congressional faction are also invested in Amway's highly questionable pyramid schemes, and perhaps they would favor this ethically-challenged turd (who has no experience in the field of education) as Secretary of Education.
Despite there being a Department of Education in Washington, most education issues are handled on the state or local level. The most likely thing from any Trump appointee would actually be a reduction in Federal mandates. It won't affect differences within the state at all.
My gut says she won't be confirmed. She'll be the one sacrificial lamb of the nominees.
Those towns mentioned have little to no charter options because the publics are so good and the state supplements a small or zero percent of the cost because of the high socioeconomic stats. Residents are not looking for other options.
Maybe more of a boost for towns like Montclair where families would love to get supplemented for Kimberly Montclair tuition. Or englewood where many send to parochial or Dwight englewood.
Interested in others thoughts.
How do you think about Holmdel? It also has good school system, but may not as good as Princeton or Tenafly (according to the Niche report). Thx.
If...she does get confirmed. Speaking purely all conjecture... Probably minimal impact to many suburb areas with good public schools. It is probably urban areas like NYC that may be potentially most impacted. Because if one has to guess what her plan maybe...its probably to siphon money from public school system and put it toward charter and private schools in one way or another.
Whether its requiring public schools to give physical space for charter, allocating or requiring cities to set budget & bigger for charter funding, form of tax breaks for private schools itself, etc. In a way, rob Peter (public school) to pay Paul (charter/private).
If...she does get confirmed. Speaking purely all conjecture... Probably minimal impact to many suburb areas with good public schools. It is probably urban areas like NYC that may be potentially most impacted. Because if one has to guess what her plan maybe...its probably to siphon money from public school system and put it toward charter and private schools in one way or another.
Whether its requiring public schools to give physical space for charter, allocating or requiring cities to set budget & bigger for charter funding, form of tax breaks for private schools itself, etc. In a way, rob Peter (public school) to pay Paul (charter/private).
Exactly. This is already playing out in NYC. The fight over physical space in an area like Manhattan is a pretty major battle. (When my oldest - now 27 - was in elementary, there were two years that she had 33 kids in her class.) Add the problems with charters picking and choosing only the kids they want, and leaving the others for public schools to deal with, while taking away funding from those same schools, and it's full out war. My younger kids were pretty heavily recruited for a new charter school that opened up in a high school a few blocks from us. We'd get mailings every couple weeks. After talking to a few parents from our public school, it became apparent that they were targeting a specific socio-economic group. With three kids still in their early-to-middle years of school, education is one of several reasons we moved out here. As it was, I homeschooled for the two years prior to the move.
I hope those saying that it will have little effect on most NJ suburbs are correct. We've got ten more years to get through before the last kid is ready for college - if they even end up choosing to go. But that's a whole 'nother ball of wax, lol.
The school here is disgusting. My kids, both elementary go to Cranford and both hardly have any homework to come home to reinforce what was taught in school. I was recently learned about PARCC and my 3rd grader has no idea how to do the English part. She aced her math because I am teaching her above her grade level.
I did made complaints about lack of homework but it didn't change anything.
The school or the way how materials are taught need a major makeover
Public edu needs a shake up was hoping for Michelle rhee.
Public edu is in a coma reaching back into the early 20th century. sure, it's alive but moribund.
colleges and unversities are big business that somehow escape criticism directed at 'Big Business". Why is that.
Our country's future needs an intervention and it will not come from current EDU leaders.
whether it be Voss or Rhee it matters not, as long as the stranglehold by edu unions and dem supporters is obliterated.
Teachers and our children deserve better.
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