NJ Deparment of Education 
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Sun Aug 17, 2008 at 06:35:08 PM EDT
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The NJ Department of Education issued a report last week saying that Freehold administrators did not mean to deceive when they received degrees from a "diploma mill" at taxpayer expense in order to get a raise: The Education Department in its report suggested -- but didn't require -- that school administrators in the future earn their degrees at reputable, accredited schools. So it's still an option to get your degree from non-accredited schools if you'd like, according to the department of Education and they say they don't have the power to change it apparently:Education Commissioner Lucille Davy said she doesn't have the authority to regulate what kind of degrees school boards allow when determining pay and benefits for administrators.
"It is wrong for people to use diploma mill degrees to increase their salaries. But I don't have the authority to stop them," Davy said. It's wrong? That's it? If she doesn't have the power, then the Legislature or whoever else does should do more than offer faint condemnation. The response from the Education Department prompted today's quote of the day:"I feel sorry for New Jersey. Here they had an opportunity to step up to the plate, and they opted not to. I would have thought New Jersey would have had a little more brass than that," Allen Ezell, a former FBI agent who investigated diploma mill fraud, told the Asbury Park Press for Sunday newspapers. But until someone shows a little more brass as the FBI agent puts it, diploma mills will remain an option in New Jersey because no one seems to have the power or the will to change it.
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