Thursday, May 31, 2012

COUNTY LEADERS HEAD TO TRENTON ON EDUCATION FUNDING CRUSADE

Star-Ledger reports:


TRENTON — A group of Essex County lawmakers plans to present a laundry list of demands to Senate President Stephen Sweeney Thursday that must be satisfied before they support a controversial overhaul of the state’s higher education system, the Star Ledger has learned.
The long and potentially expensive list — which includes granting Rutgers-Newark unprecedented autonomy and pumping millions of state taxpayer dollars into Newark’s University Hospital and medical school — was laid out in a conference call headed by Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex) and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, according to sources familiar with the plan.
The sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for the delegation.

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