N.J. schools chief fired over $400 million mistake…Well Not Really
New Jersey’s education commissioner, who was responsible for making a relatively simple mistake that cost the state $400 million in federal funding for public schools, has been fired, according to a statement made Friday by Gov. Chris Christie.
Sort of..
He said he was asked to resign, but he requested to be fired instead so he could collect unemployment insurance.
Socialst!!11toeelventy!!
The Washington Monthly assembles the whole pathetic affair:
Like most states, New Jersey sought Race to the Top education grants from the federal government, but much to Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) dismay, his state just missed qualifying for $400 million in funding. That, however, isn’t the interesting part.
As it turns out, New Jersey Education Commissioner Bret Schundler submitted mistaken data to federal officials, which appears to have cost the state its grant. Christie this week condemned the Obama administration, saying it was the president’s bureaucracy that prevented New Jersey from qualifying.
We later learned that the governor didn’t know what he was talking about. The Christie administration claimed that Schundler caught the error, and tried to correct it during a presentation to the U.S. Department of Education, but those mean ol’ Obama administration officials wouldn’t let him fix it. In reality, as a videotape proved, that was backwards — the Obama administration caught Schundler’s error and asked him to fix it. He didn’t, so New Jersey lost out on the funding.
It’s the New Conservative Movement.