NJ Education Report

at his education agenda and snuck in a few sucker-punches of his own. Some highlights: Corzine used one-time ARRA funds to fill education holes in his 2010 budget, N.J.’s achievement gap between minority and white students is alarmingly high, and half the kids in Newark and Camden can’t pass the High School Proficiency Assessment. Christie also says that he supports universal preschool but we can’t afford it (neither can Corzine – he first proposed and then withdrew the funding) and that he would, in fact, accept stimulus money for education.