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Published: January 15, 1997

N.J. Finance Law Ties Funding and Standards

After months of debate and frenetic horse-trading, New Jersey lawmakers wound up preserving the thrust of Gov. Christine Todd Whitman's plan to tie school funding to statewide curriculum standards.

The school finance measure, signed by the governor Dec. 20, moves New Jersey into the vanguard of states that are turning to academic standards as a means of reframing the decades-old debate over educational equity.

At the heart of the plan is the notion that the state is not obligated to equalize spending in rich and poor school systems as long as needy districts have enough cash to meet the...

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  • Read a statement from Gov. Whitman regarding New Jersey's school-funding lawsuit.
  • In Making Schools Work: Spending and Student Achievement, published by Heartland Policy Studies, University of Rochester professor Eric A. Hanushek writes that "perhaps reformers should really be asking not where new money for schools is to come from, but whether schools spend existing funds wisely."

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