McGreevey Creates Panel To Iron Out Abbott Wrinkles
Ushering in what he called a new age of cooperation, New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey signed an executive order last week designed to ease the rocky implementation of billions of dollars in court-ordered improvements in the state's poorest school districts.
Signed Feb. 19 in a Trenton elementary school auditorium full of children, the order creates a seven-member commission composed of the leaders of key state government departments responsible for overseeing a series of far-reaching court decisions in the landmark case known as Abbott v . Burke.
The Democratic governor, in office only five weeks, hailed the new body as a practical and symbolic step away from an era of foot-dragging that has slowed delivery of court-ordered rehabilitation and construction projects and frustrated school administrators who had...
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