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"The State is developing a longitudinal data system that will enable the State to track each student's quarterly learning progress and some of its life consequences, and correlate this data with key factors relating to the educational experience of children." If anyone understands all this, I would like to buy them another drink. While the good governor is busy forcing the best teachers out to pasture, who is going to enact all this innovation and reform? I think Mr. Schundler is saying the state will, but who is going to pay for all this state bureaucracy? Being able to hand out all these new (high paying?) state jobs is what makes politicians powerful. Top down management, without the support and practical expertise of the people working in the classroom, will be a disaster. Mr. Schundler and our governor should consider that their grand scheme will only succeed if the people they are busy kicking in the teeth believe in it. If the public believes that the statement above is a "Common Sense" example of educational reform, than God take pity on the children of New Jersey.