Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Christie, GOP want to eliminate Supreme Court's power to rule on school funding

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Christie, GOP want to eliminate Supreme Court's power to rule on school funding

Christie, GOP want to eliminate Supreme Court's power to rule on school funding

by Mike Klonsky

Gov. Christie toasts Arne Duncan.

New Jersey has become the model for national corporate reform assaults on teachers and public education in general. It's the state where the T-Party types like Gov. Christie, Obama Democrats, including Arne Duncan, andBillionaire Boys Club members like Mark Zuckerberg, have joined hands to support the right-wing agenda.

Now look where Christie's "reform" agenda is heading. Christie and state Republicans are hatching a plot to take away the power of the Supreme Court over matters of school funding.

A Republican strategy memo laid out Friday in an e-mail from Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr. to his caucus asked fellow GOP senators for feedback on a three-pronged education plan after Tuesday's Supreme Court order requiring the state to invest $500