Too soon to scrap Abbott
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Link: NJVoices: Star-Ledger Editorial Page.
Thankfully, those courts, including the current one in its ruling Tuesday, rejected the idea that the Abbott case should die.
The Corzine administration sought court approval of a new state school financial aid formula. The new formula rejects special funding for 31 Abbott districts in favor of calculations that distribute $7.8 billion among all schools -- $4.1 billion of it to the Abbotts -- based on the number of disadvantaged students they have and a district's ability to provide for them.
