New Jersey - Educational Attainment
- In 2005, New Jersey (click here) ranked 6th among the 50 states in the percentage of its adults aged 25 to 64 with at least high school diploma (89.4%).
- New Jersey ranked 3rd in the percentage of adults aged 25 to 64 with a bachelor’s degree or higher (37.7%) and 6th in the percentage with a graduate or professional degree (13.5%).
- Relative to the U.S. average, New Jersey has higher percentages of adults who have completed bachelors, graduate, and professional degrees (see below).
Now, some free lancers, Hedge Fund Managers, want everyone to believe they are the saints of all saints to New Jersey citizens.
Hedge fund manager readies for battle with NJEA to reform NJ schools (click title to entry - thank you)
Published: Sunday, October 23, 2011, 6:01 AM
Updated: Sunday, October 23, 2011, 10:49 AM
(Tepper said) “I’m tired of making money and am now trying to figure out the best way to give it away,” he says.
Why is it I just don't buy that statement? I have a better idea. Rather than seeking to destroy one of the best unions in New Jersey, that delivers a magnificent product to their citizen-parents, why don't the Hedge Fund Managers begin new employment for parents? Or actually 'bailout New Jersey' from its potential deficit of the retirements funds CAUSED by Hedge Fund managers that bankrupt the banks? How does that sound?
...“With all due respect to Mr. Tepper, I am not interested in what he thinks,” says state Sen. Richard Codey, an Essex County Democrat. “I don’t think he has any clue what’s going on in the classrooms. Other people should be making these decisions, not hedge fund people. We’ve seen too much of this. It’s like buying public policy. Enough is enough.”
Tepper is like the cocky new kid on the playground, picking a fight with the bully on his first day....
This isn't about children. It isn't about children in empoverished neighborhoods. It is about destroying unions and robbing their retirement benefits. It is the ultimate merger of government and private enterprise. Destroy the union and rid the state of any obligation to truly effective educational standards.
The NJEA has always excelled with the children in New Jersey. Their citizens are among the best educated in the nation. There is profoundly nothing wrong with the NJEA. If anything it is a sincere success story when it comes to providing education to children that inspires to excell in their lives and priorities.
The problem in impoverished neighborhoods and education is frequently the availability of parents able to oversee homework and good attendance. Poverty does not propagate the best circumstances for parenting. Additionally, the drug culture is entrenched in impoverished neighborhoods. Violence and childhood trauma appears to be making a permanent impression on young minds. A violent mind can't learn. Why? Because 'fight and flight' is not condusive to learning, it is however helpful in survival.
....His co-pilot on this is Alan Fournier, of Far Hills, another hedge fund manager who used to work for Tepper.
“We will spend as much as necessary for as long as necessary to help the kids in New Jersey,” Fournier says. “The NJEA is focused on protecting the status quo for adults. Our effort is to help the kids. We do intend to be a counterweight.”
Which party will benefit? That depends on how Democrats respond to this....
