However, the fact of the matter is that Democrat Corzine, who lost reelection to Republican Christie in 2009, had earlier pulled off the neatest political and legal trick of the last four decades in New Jersey.
He got the state Supreme Court to modify its holding that 31 poor, mostly urban school districts deserved enormous state-aid subsidies,chanel bags, so large as to bring them financially even with well-to-do suburban districts like and Rumson. The 31 included , , , Newark and Camden.
Money alone would not turn failing schools into successful ones,celine bag, the court had acknowledged. But without money, progress would be impossible,oakley sunglasses. However, the court had turned aside pleas from other, somewhat more affluent districts,Louis Vuitton bags, that they had problems too.
It did, that is, until Corzine came along and recognized a flaw in the court's rationale. That was that there were students and families in working-class and even middle-class districts every bit as deserving as those in the 31 so-called Abbott districts.
So the governor and his brain trust,celine bag, backed by fellow Democrats in the Legislature, worked up an alternative funding scheme. It started by identifying what it would cost, per student,louis vuitton outlet, to deliver the "thorough and efficient system of free public schools" required by the state constitution.
Those calculations would then be adjusted to provide extra funds for students from poor families, students with special needs and students with limited English skills,Louis Vuitton Online.
The result would be a formula that would distribute state money, not according to boundaries on a map, with just 31 favored communities in a state with some 600 districts, but according to student and family need.
Politically and legally, the School Funding Reform Act of 2008 was a master stroke, delivered by a governor derided by his successor as a blundering Elmer Fudd.
The Supreme Court, which had stuck through thick and thin to its insistence on Abbott preferences, was obliged to acknowledge as much. In a decision that should have been widely anticipated but wasn't, the justices unanimously held that the law was constitutionally adequate. Related articles:

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