Former New York City administrator is appointed education commissioner in New Jersey

Dec. 21, 2010
Christopher Cerf served as deputy chancellor in the nation’s largest school system

From The New York Times: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has selected Christopher Cerf as the state’s education commissioner. Cerf, as a deputy schools chancellor in New York City, advocated some of the system’s most controversial education policies. The governor wants to overhaul a state education system that, he says, fails students, squanders taxpayer money and bows to demands from teachers’ unions.

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