Corzine's school funding scheme is under attack from the left. Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Bradley Beach Brawler Jerry Healy (who is also the Mayor of Jersey City) have come out against the school funding scheme, because they want the rest of the state to pay for their school systems at ever growing obscene levels.
Rather than buy off Booker and Healy, like he did the NJEA, Corzine is looking for savings by attempting to buy off suburban Republicans.
Assembly Republcian Leader Alex DeCroce has been an outspoken critic of the scheme, and its rush through the lame duck session. Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carrol has spoken out powerfully against the plan and the asset monetization/toll increases it will lead to.
Hopefully the Republicans will stand firm against these massive spending increases, and the legislators from Essex and Hudson counties will oppose the plan because that it doesn't spend enough.
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Corzine's plan sucks on many levels. Yes, our property taxes are at obscene levels, but this bill will do little to help that, and the help it does provide will do terrible things to the quality of public education throughout NJ, not just in Essex and Hudson. School districts will be hurt badly in every legislative district in the state.
See Steve Latz's "New Jersey Legislator's Guide to S4000/A500" at http://www.njschoolfunding.org.
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