Report: Christie’s Budget Hurts Poor School Districts

A New Jersey judge issued a report Tuesday condemning Gov. Chris Christie’s school-funding cuts, saying poor and disadvantaged students have been hurt the most despite the state’s best efforts.

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“A special master’s report like this carries great weight with the higher court,” said David Sciarra, the executive director of the Education Law Center. “The evidence was exhaustive, detailed thorough and its conclusions are sobering about the impact of the funding cuts on students across the state, particularly poor students, regardless of where they live.”

New Jersey sends more than a third of its annual state budget to local school districts to help offset the cost of property taxes. For three decades, the state Supreme Court has been involved in spending decisions through lawsuits challenging whether the state has provided a “thorough and efficient” education to all children, as required by the constitution.

The special master’s job was to answer whether districts, especially those with poor students, could provide adequate education under the slashed funding levels in Christie’s proposed budget.

Christie has derided the court’s past decisions that have sent state policymakers back to the budget drawing boards to come up with equitable ways to fund schools. One of the Republican governor’s top goals is to remake the court by appointing his own justices. His current appointee, lawyer Anne Patterson, is being held up in a political and ideological dispute with the state senate president.

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http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/03/22/report-christies-budget-hurts-poor-school-districts/

it makes me wonder if there is a common GOP playbook to privatize education. Go after the financially destitute districts first.

That'll keep things like, just like it's always done. :sarcasm:

drawn up budgets which give Taxcuts to Business and
the rich and they use cuts to Social Programs to pay for
the tax cuts.

Repukes hate the poor. Repukes hate America. Repukes hate (born) children. Repukes hate women. And Repukes hate teachers.

That about sums it up.