Published: Thursday, April 07, 2011, 11:50 AM Updated: Thursday, April 07, 2011, 11:57 AM
By Jessica Calefati/The Star-Ledger The Star-Ledger
NEW YORK — In a speech hosted by the Brookings Institution, Gov. Chris Christie is expected to announce that the success of his ambitious efforts to reform teacher tenure and improve student achievement are more important than his future in politics.
"I would rather lose an election and lose my career, rather than look back and realize that I did not do enough, or that I put myself and my career ahead of the future lives of the children of New Jersey," Christie said in prepared remarks for today's address at the Essex House in New York City.
Christie describes his education reform battle as "the fight that will define all of the other fights," and one that deserves bipartisan concern and action.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Christie's partner in an effort to improve the troubled Newark Public Schools, has recently made similar claims, staking his political future on the reform effort's success.
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Amazing how destruction can be called "reform" --
Remember when "reform" used to be a good thing -- an improvement -- ?