Weekly Trenton Musings

Christie Puts OSA in State Budget

As far as the legislature is concerned, the Opportunity Scholarship Act is indefinitely on hold. As far as we are concerned, it has died a slow and painful death, one small cut at a time. Senator Raymond Lesniak, its original sponsor, withdrew his support just as the program was being vetted and narrowed to the point where it might actually get somewhere, and Assembly Majority Leader Sheila Oliver is not suddenly going to flop over and stop stonewalling—especially in an election year. The teacher’s union has shown once again just what a stranglehold it has on the majority of legislators in our statehouse.

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