State Journal: Referendum fears; Remedial manners

Warning of the potential dangers to education posed by the initiative and referendum process, the powerful New Jersey Education Association is vowing to oppose a new effort to give voters in that state the authority to approve their own laws.

Gov. James J. Florio, the besieged Democrat who watched his party trounced during a taxpayers' revolt last fall, has called on the legislature to adopt I. & R. The leadership of the new Republican majority in the legislature is also seeking such a measure.

What concerns many educators in the state, though, is the specter of California's Proposition 13 and Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2--tax limitations approved by voters that have had a devastating...