Why Oh Why Can't We Have A Better Press Corps?
Apologies to Brad DeLong, but I just couldn't think of a better headline after reading this from the Record:
New Jersey is spending roughly the same amount of every dollar it collects from taxpayers on direct school aid under Governor Christie as it did under prior Democratic governors.
The New Jersey Education Association - which disagrees with Christie on a number of issues, including tenure reform, merit pay and vouchers - is running a multimillion-dollar ad campaign against the governor that calls attention to education spending cuts.
"Tax cuts for millionaires, but education cuts that hurt middle class families, Chris Christie is making the wrong choices for New Jersey," says the narrator in an NJEA ad running on television.
Yet Christie, according to an analysis of recent state budgets by The Record, is allocating