Ex-education chief Schundler openly blames Gov. Christie for Race to the Top loss
Published: Thursday, October 07, 2010, 9:16 PM Updated: Thursday, October 07, 2010, 10:13 PM
File photos of N.J. Gov. Chris Christie and his former education commissioner Bret Schundler.TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie and the education commissioner he fired in August were again at each other’s throats today in a public display that proved the controversy over the administration’s loss of $400 million in federal school aid will not disappear any time soon.
As Bret Schundler told a state Senate committee the governor placed fighting with the state teachers unions and his persona on talk radio above education reform, Christie told reporters Schundler was trading in "revisionist history" and interested only in seeking "the spotlight."
In different corners of the Statehouse, Schundler and Christie took their public shots at each other to new levels