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Today’s WHYY Post: Christie’s Proposed School Aid, 2014

My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks  looks at the reaction of various interest groups — school boards, teachers’ union, principals and supervisors, superintendents —  to Gov. Christie’s proposed 2014 school aid.

Last week Gov. Christie proposed a $32.9 billion budget for 2014.  He prefaced his formal address with promises of “fiscal sanity” and “fiscal discipline,” and then dropped the biggest ticket item: $8.9 billion for public schools, an increase of $97.3 million over 2013.

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Laura Waters

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