Some testifying today argued that student performance and education quality in the district have gone backwards since the One Newark plan was implemented. Frustrations over Anderson’s tenure were compounded just last month when Christie announced a three-year renewal of Anderson’s contract, paying her $255,000 for the year, including a 1.6 percent cost-of-living raise. The hearing was a follow-up to the fiery cross-examination of Anderson herself at the committee’s meeting in January, when lawmakers from Essex County’s delegation laced into the administrator for the direction the city’s schools are taking under her leadership. But I also don’t believe in shoving things down people’s throat,” said Assemblyman David Wolfe (R-10). “I’ve always been a fan of new things - I don’t believe in doing things just because they’ve always been done that way. Chris Christie to her post in 2011, has largely taken the blame for the problems it’s caused.
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Meant to improve the city’s public education system by increasing student options, including an open enrollment initiative, public outcry and student and teacher protests have mostly defined the plan’s reception over the last few months, and Anderson, appointed by Gov. Accusing the former of engaging in “behavior destructive to students” and calling the latter’s implementation “botched,” several members of the Newark education community as well as state and local officials double-down on their criticisms of Anderson and the plan, rolled out in September of last year to a rash of controversy.