Princeton University

PRIOR is pleased to announce the release of its latest publication A View from the Top: A Conversation with Former Governors about Abbott v. Burke, an edited volume recently published by the Policy Research Institute for the Region (PRIOR) at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

PRIOR was established to utilize the various resources of the Princeton University community to help address the increasingly interdependent policy issues that face the governments and officials of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The publication is the result of the 2007 conference of the same name, at which Brendon Byrne, Jim Florio, and Donald DiFrancesco offered their unique perspectives on the landmark education decision and the challenges its implementation presents for New Jersey.
The governors concurred that New Jersey has reached a juncture at which the terms established in Abbott v. Burke require renegotiation, and discussed Governor Corzine’s recently introduced School Funding Reform Act which was signed into law in January, 2008.

Contributors to the conference and the publication also include Dick Leone, former New Jersey State Treasurer and President of the Century Foundation; Gordon MacInnes, senior education policy expert at the Woodrow Wilson School; and Lucille Davy, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education. Included in this volume is an essay by Commissioner Davy explaining the details of the new law.