Legislator-for-hire Mila Jasey turns on the kids to protect her NJEA financiers

Mila Jasey

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

With Tuesday’s big pension news breaking hard, Save Jerseyans, you may’ve missed the 100+ parents and activists who besieged New Jersey Democrat Assemblywoman Mila Jasey’s Maplewood district office to protest A4351, legislation designed to impose a three-year moratorium on increases in charter school enrollments approved by the Commissioner of Education starting for the 2015-2016 academic year.

It wasn’t a Tea Party crowd:

Let’s narrow this discussion: the offending bill itself is pointless and, if I may be so bold, cruel on its face. Listen to the parents featured above and tell me I’m wrong… make my day! So the only real question worth our consideration is why a legislator would put up such a pointless piece of legislation, right? Given the clear and present failures of our K-12 education system?

Well, Asw. Jasey told NJ Advance Media that she doesn’t have an agenda; all she wants is a “a fair assessment of where we are and where we are going.” Whatever that means.

Mila Jasey
Mila Jasey

But you and I know the truth: she’s a bought-and-sold NJEA foot soldier.

And in a district (LD27) that is borderline competitive at least on paper, Jasey doesn’t want to risk losing their backing especially in a low-turnout cycle. Jasey’s district added Essex’s Millburn and the Morris County municipalities of Chatham, East Hanover, Florham Park, and Hanover in 2011 redistricting but it shed the Abbott District-designated City of Orange; voucher support, perhaps unsurprisingly, is often strongest among those forced to attend our state’s crappiest failure factory public education institutions.

Selling out kids is consequently as attractive as it is lucrative. Seductively so. The single largest donor of Jasey’s career is – you guessed it – the NJEA at $31,600. Her next closest contributor trails at $9,200. We’re not even touching the Super PAC spending in this post.

Just don’t treat her like an aberration. It’s an attitude that runs throughout the entire organization. Back in 2012, then-NJEA Executive Director Vincent Giordano went on TV and infamously told New Jersey’s poor families stuck in crappy public school districts sorry, “life’s not always fair.” Then at the 2015 NJSCERA Conference on Virtual & Blended Learning, the NJEA’s Marguerite Schroder admitted that NO, her organization wouldn’t support a non-unionized school even if it was high quality. The real goal, of course, is protecting the quality of living for the union leadership, not the teachers/students/parents.

Are you starting to see the big picture here, NJ? Finally? I sure as hell hope so. It’s staring you in the face.

There is NO excuse to feign surprise at a broken multi-billion dollar pension system and a school system where $20,000+ per pupil can’t buy college readiness when the political system is controlled by callous, greedy gangsters and the politicians living inside their collective pocket. Like Mila Jasey.

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5 Comments

  1. This one is a catch twenty two. On one hand you have some failing public schools that definitely need to be fixed. Tenure being one of them. On the other hand you have for profit charter schools. Most people on the left, and the right, that are opposed to charters, is the sheer fact that they get taxpayer money but tax payers and parents have no say in the curriculum. There are no school boards, therefore no parental input. the other option is high priced private schools. So unions are threatened by a belief that the state wants to put them out of business and create state run charters, and most parents want to have a say in their child’s education.

  2. You will not improve reading and arithmetic until you teach them! The progressive approaches currently used do not do either. We do not teach children to read they are taught to guess meaning through memorized words and context. That may be an approach for an adult to read as the brain combines approaches but learning to read is not the same and the brain is not used appropriately.
    Back to phonics- we have been going down hill ever since we tried to get children to memorize Dick and Jane. Memorizing words is not learning to read. If it were we would still use pictograms. Today is even worse because the word cat does not look like a cat as it would have on at the wall of a cave. The alphabet and the related sounds elevated reading from walls of caves to a new world of learning opening a sea of expansion in the ability to communicate both visually and auditorily. Why would the proponents of progressive language bath learning want kids to go back to pre alphabet methods of reading? It makes no sense.
    We can talk arithmetic vs math another time.

  3. Fyi..a little about the “protest” in front of her office…
    Pulled a page out of Eva Moskowitz’s play book. For the past couple of years, she closes her Success Academy charter schools in NYC and buses her students and parents to Albany for “Lobby Day.” Imagine traditional public schools doing the same…Oh, and by the way, Shavar Jeffries is on the board of directors for Success Academy…

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