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Mead, Sara – New America Foundation, 2009
This report seeks to describe how New Jersey became a national leader in early education and PreK-3rd, identify its successes and challenges, draw lessons from its experience for policymakers in other states and nationally, and provide recommendations for New Jersey policymakers to translate progress to date into sustained, large scale learning…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Primary Education, Educational Change
Goertz, Margaret E.; Weiss, Michael – Campaign for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2009
Education finance policy in New Jersey has been shaped by over 30 years of school finance litigation. Through its decisions in "Robinson v. Cahill" (1973-1976) and "Abbott v. Burke" (1985-2005), the justices of New Jersey's supreme court have defined the state's constitutional guarantee of a "thorough and efficient"…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Court Litigation, Finance Reform, Public Education
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Ritter, Gary W.; Lauver, Sherri C. – Journal of Education Finance, 2003
Analyzes impact of court-mandated school-finance reform in New Jersey. Finds, for example, that while the state's poorest urban districts have benefited from the reform efforts, systematic inequities inherent in the state's system of school funding have not been addressed. (Contains 21 references.) (PKP)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education