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Friday, October 28, 2011

Jersey Jazzman: "Experts"

Jersey Jazzman: "Experts":

"Experts"

Acting Commissioner Cerf assembles another stellar panel:
Cerf said yesterday that he has enlisted a team of nearly a dozen academics, researchers, and others to look at the effectiveness of the current School Funding Reform Act (SFRA) formula and help him come up with changes.
The court-ordered review of SFRA is already a year late. Cerf said it would come this winter.
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He stressed the final recommendations will be his, but he has enlisted help from a mix of school funding experts from across the country, most from academia. They are:
  • Sean Corcoran – New York University
  • Eric Hanushek -- Stanford University
  • Brian Jacob – University of Michigan
  • Susanna Loeb – Stanford University
  • Mona