Reply #13: Here's yet another story that should make everyone's blood boil

[nonperson]

How corrupt can you get and still get away with it? This is simply disgraceful criminal behavior. Cerf was acting commissioner but now Chris Christie has appointed this guy, Cerf, as New Jersey's EDUCATION COMMISSIONER!

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/secret_plan_to...

Acting N.J. education chief founded consulting firm hired to overhaul failing Newark schools

Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 7:00 AM Updated: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 2:51 PM

By Star-Ledger Staff The Star-Ledger

"NEWARK — A consulting firm hired by Newark’s mayor to overhaul the city’s failing schools was founded a few months ago by Christopher D. Cerf, the state’s acting education commissioner, and still lists his Montclair home as its New Jersey address.

The firm, Global Education Advisors, is at the heart of a controversial proposal to open nearly a dozen new charter schools — a move that would reshuffle thousands of city kids and one that has already drawn angry response from parents.

Cerf acknowledged Tuesday that he had a hand in the creation of the firm, but said he was no longer connected with it. He said he is now merely lending his address to the consulting firm because it needed a New Jersey mailing address. "When this little consulting company was formed, I was part of the creation of it," he said. "I severed my relationship to it literally right after its formation. I have never received any compensation from it."

He said he never did anything with the company. "I have no presence or association with it. I have never taken a nickel from it," he said. "I never actually did anything with it, so I’m not in any way, shape or form related to it."

He asked The Star-Ledger not to publish this story because he said he did not think it was very important."