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1. POSTED BY walleroo  |  August 27, 2010 @ 4:44 pm

   Yo Liz, I think you’re having some html problems in the link above.
2. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  August 27, 2010 @ 4:52 pm

   Bummer. Now we’ll have to rely on Glenn Beck for history lessons.
3. POSTED BY jerseygurl  |  August 27, 2010 @ 4:57 pm

   The guy cost the state $400mm and now he has the balls to want to collect unemployment? And unemployment is not a given, especially if the employer had good cause. I would say this muck up is certainly good cause for dismissal. He’s probably getting severance too.
4. POSTED BY Nellie  |  August 27, 2010 @ 5:00 pm

   I give Christie credit for making Schundler accountable…But to allow Schundler to collect unemployment is reprehensible.
5. POSTED BY walleroo  |  August 27, 2010 @ 5:01 pm

   I reckon Montclair’s share of the money lost (assuming it’s proportional to population) comes to $1.7 million.
6. POSTED BY Liz George  |  August 27, 2010 @ 5:01 pm

   Thanks, Roo – fixed.
7. POSTED BY walleroo  |  August 27, 2010 @ 5:02 pm

   Thanks, Roo
   Oh! My heart skipped a beat.
8. POSTED BY jerseygurl  |  August 27, 2010 @ 5:05 pm

   This weather seems to be making ‘roo a little frisky.
9. POSTED BY kevin1975  |  August 27, 2010 @ 5:06 pm

   How do we FIRE Christie? He is nothing but a Large Bully. How is he not accountable for this too?? If the idiots who voted him in the first time vote him again they should have their heads examed!!! Sadly this country gave George Bush Jr. 2 terms so, anything could happen!! This is an outrage of epic preportions, why aren’t people angrier?? WHY ISN”T THE MEDIA BEING TOUGH ON CHRISTIE??????
10. POSTED BY walleroo  |  August 27, 2010 @ 5:06 pm

    Do I make you randy, baby? Oh, beee-have!
11. POSTED BY walleroo  |  August 27, 2010 @ 5:08 pm

    Don’t worry, keving, on Monday the Star Ledger is planning to run an article about Christie written in ALL CAPS!!!
12. POSTED BY Nellie  |  August 27, 2010 @ 5:27 pm

    Why isn’t the media being tough on Obama?
13. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  August 27, 2010 @ 5:36 pm

    Why isn’t the media being tough on Haband trousers?
14. POSTED BY Nellie  |  August 27, 2010 @ 5:42 pm

    LOL, Spiro
15. POSTED BY PAZ  |  August 27, 2010 @ 7:49 pm

    The “Media” is costing us millions….Heads should roll!
16. POSTED BY Mrs. Martta123  |  August 27, 2010 @ 7:58 pm

    Spiro’s comment made me guffaw, loudly!
    Yeah, Schundler has to go and I hope he does not qualify for unemployment.
17. POSTED BY Lauren  |  August 27, 2010 @ 8:04 pm

    I wold think he doesn’t need unemployment. Wasn’t he a former investment banker prior to donating his time as mayor of JC?
18. POSTED BY Kay  |  August 27, 2010 @ 8:10 pm

    I always thought one could still collect unemployment after quitting, albeit after a hearing of sorts, and a penalty of 6 weeks or so. Kind of embarrassing for Schundler though…
    What galls me is to see all those wasted man-hours (1,000 pages worth!) … in order to get back *Our Own Money*!
19. POSTED BY Somethingz Fishy  |  August 28, 2010 @ 11:23 am

    Really, I’m pretty sure you don’t get unemployment when you’re fired for cause.
20. POSTED BY MMM  |  August 28, 2010 @ 12:21 pm

    “Gov. Chris Christie says he fired Schundler because he “misled” him”
    More like Christie needed a fall guy…..
21. POSTED BY raspablobaje  |  August 28, 2010 @ 3:54 pm

    I still don’t understand why a correct answer was changed to an irrelevant one??? Is this typical of how NJ goes after “grants” from DC? Putting politics aside, it’s just sad.
22. POSTED BY BloomfieldMama  |  August 28, 2010 @ 5:04 pm

    The ORIGINAL application, as done in coordination with NJEA and Schundler, contained the CORRECT information and would have scored extra points for being done in coordination with the teacher’s union. But, Christie nixed it the day-of and submitted his own application, which has the wrong numbers and cost even more points.
    Had the original application been submitted, the NJEA would have been happy, concessions would have been made by both sides, the application would have been correct and would have received additional points for having NJEA on board, and NJ would have $400M….
    The problem isn’t Schundler, though this is his karma. The problem is Christie.
23. POSTED BY Bill Courson  |  August 28, 2010 @ 5:32 pm

    So happy to see Schundler, the wunderkind of New Jersey’s new right, revealed for the witless, bimbonic demagogue he is. Now, if we can only dispose of fatty ….
24. POSTED BY walleroo  |  August 28, 2010 @ 7:41 pm

    The problem isn’t Schundler, though this is his karma. The problem is Christie.
    Let us not forget the recalcitrance of the unions, which lost NJ a whole bunch of points, too.
25. POSTED BY raspablobaje  |  August 29, 2010 @ 1:25 am

    I agree the unions have played their part in all this…but its hard to place any blame on them since they didn’t actually have any say or influence at all on the application that was submitted. This is one cake where the baker should take the responsability…and I’m not sure that has happened yet!
26. POSTED BY appletony  |  August 29, 2010 @ 8:41 am

    Sorry raspablabajabba, but it is NOT hard to hold the unions accountable for a big piece of the failure here. A big factor in the Race to the Top competition is the ability of schools in a state to use student performance improvements as a measure of teacher effectiveness, which is something that the NJ teachers unions won’t embrace, even begrudgingly.
27. POSTED BY croiagusanam  |  August 29, 2010 @ 1:09 pm

    The union was NOT opposed to using results to gauge effectiveness. As a matter of fact, the union ENDORSED the methodology instituted by the LA TIMES and cited by the Christie administration and the Dept. of Education, which would use computer programs to factor in results over a five years span with an unchanging cohort of students in order to see how they improved, or didn’t, over that period. The money to bring this program to NJ, about 47 million, would have come from this grant. Where it will come from now is anyone’s guess.
    The union has not been blameless through all of this. But the bottom line is, the union rejected the original application, then sat with the Schundler and signed off on a compromise. In his arrogance, the governor rejected the compromise, scolded Schundler, and rewrote the application — incorrectly as it turns out. It is his belief that he alone can “save” education, his refusal to accept that politics involves compromise, and his belligerance towards those with whom he disagrees that has cost NJ this money.
    The man is a classic bully.
28. POSTED BY Will James  |  August 30, 2010 @ 1:13 pm

    I’m with croiag. This is Christie’s bungle, and he’s definitely not owning it. Not only is he not taking responsibility, but his first response was to blame the federal government for the supposed ‘inflexibility’ of its nameless bureaucrats who, he claims, didn’t give NJ the opportunity to amend the data. Turns out his hissy-fit was mistaken, as the videotape proved. Imagine if students objected to the ‘inflexibility’ of the Scantronic test machines that are used to assess their abilities. I wonder what Christie would have to say about that.
29. POSTED BY Kit Schackner  |  August 30, 2010 @ 1:15 pm

    I think Croiagusinam is dead right on this — the original application which Christie usurped was correctly prepared.
    I am reminded of an elementary school classmate –a bully named Dutch Dealahan who towered over all the other kids. Once in a 6th grade science class, he had to present a project. Like a lot of school yard bullies, he wasn’t a very good student and his presentation was full of smirks and guffaws designed to elicit support from his bullying buddies. In one big gesture, he accidentally dropped his project. As it hit the floor, he called out across the room: “Nice Shot, Wayne!” The whole class broke up over his knee-jerk blaming it on the other guy.
    That’s what Christie did to Schundler — “Nice shot, Wayne!” He really is a bullying blowhard who’s been hoisted by his own petard.

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