Myron Orfield
Myron Orfield
Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law
Director, Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity

Orfield Quoted on School Funding Proposal

Professor Myron Orfield provided testimony to the New Jersey Legislature's Assembly Budget and Education Committees, regarding Governor Jon Corzine's proposal to overhaul the state's system for funding education. The new plan would provide more funding for the poorest districts in New Jersey, with increased funding to those districts with growing numbers of poor and immigrant children.

In an article in the Star Ledger, Orfield states, Corzine's plan is a "significant step in the right direction (for the state of New Jersey), because it recognizes the struggle and stress of the older suburbs."