NJ Files Another Application for Federal Education Funding
New Jersey has filed another application for federal education money -- one that'll almost certainly be approved -- unlike the state's recently rejected "Race To The Top" bid that cost state Education Commissioner Bret Schundler his job last month.
KYW's David Madden reports that the Garden State lost some $400-million, some suggest, because the state failed to provide proper documentation for it's bid. This time, $268-million is on the line, and the application is a lot simpler.
Barbara Keshishian is president of the New Jersey Education Association, and an outspoken critic of the Christie Administration:
"The application consisted of checking one of two boxes, signing and dating the application and sending it in. So there was really not a whole lot of ways that this could have been wrong."
The money will restore 3,900 jobs which were eliminated when the governor slashed state funding for school districts by $820-million. Administration officials did not make themselves available for comment.
