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yesthattomI often hear people say, “The government can’t do anything right” and use it as a justification for, well, usually their personal agenda.
I disagree. The government is made up of you and me. It can do things right, it just takes a decision to do things right and the funding to make it happen. There is no Santa Claus.
In the last few years many of my friends have decided to go into teaching, most of whom are in NJ. The certification process is crazy. The application fees had to be paid with money orders and bank checks, not credit cards or personal checks. There were some procedures that required two or three small checks, each to a different departments. The backlog was so big you couldn’t apply and be certified in the same school year.
In all, the department receives about 45,000 certification applications every year and was processing them all by hand.
Today NJ DOE announced:
Apply on line, pay by credit card, check status of application, get updates on test scores, etc.
They expect 75% of all new applications to use this system.
I disagree. The government is made up of you and me. It can do things right, it just takes a decision to do things right and the funding to make it happen. There is no Santa Claus.
In the last few years many of my friends have decided to go into teaching, most of whom are in NJ. The certification process is crazy. The application fees had to be paid with money orders and bank checks, not credit cards or personal checks. There were some procedures that required two or three small checks, each to a different departments. The backlog was so big you couldn’t apply and be certified in the same school year.
In all, the department receives about 45,000 certification applications every year and was processing them all by hand.
Today NJ DOE announced:
A new teacher licensing application system that allows people to apply
for certification online and pay online by credit card is now
operational, Commissioner of Education William L. Librera announced
today.
http://www.state.nj.us/njded/news/2005/0609app.htm
Apply on line, pay by credit card, check status of application, get updates on test scores, etc.
They expect 75% of all new applications to use this system.
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Date: 2005-06-11 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-11 08:55 pm (UTC)... and expect it to still take just as long to get certified.
Lately at work, I've been using this phrase a lot:
You do not solve problems by adding more bureaucracy.
In this case, I think this twist on that saying is apropos:
You do not solve bureaucracy by adding more technology.