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 School, municipal representatives criticize property tax cap deal reached in Trenton 7/3/2010 Star-Ledger TRENTON — Teachers union, school board and municipal representatives this evening said a plan to lower the state's property tax cap to 2 percent would hamstring local governments, but they had varying concerns. The plan, a compromise reached between Gov. Chris Christie and Senate Democrats, would tighten the limit on property tax increases, lowering the cap from 4 percent to 2 percent and limiting exceptions to pension, health care, debt payments, natural disasters or rising school enrollment. The current policy allows local governments to ask the state to go ov...   Read Full Article Testy Christie rejects cooperation. Puts ideology ahead of education - again. 6/5/2010 Apparently, the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing in Gov. Christie’s administration. Earlier this week, the governor abruptly rejected a carefully crafted agreement reached between his own Commissioner of Education, Bret Schundler, and the New Jersey Education Association. The agreement, designed to bolster New Jersey’s bid for $400 million in federal Race to the Top education funding, was the result of weeks of collaboration between educators and the Christie administration’s Department of Education. Striving to improve on the state’s earlier failed application, th... Read Full Article
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