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New Jersey Advocacy Groups Didn’t Get Their Stimulus Way

By Michele McNeil — June 08, 2009 1 min read
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The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday, in grand fashion, (meaning not just through a press release, but a site visit as well), that it was granting New Jersey’s application for state fiscal stabilization funds. This comes despite the protests of advocacy groups, which have numerous problems with the application itself, and the education department’s whole stimulus process. Apparently, their arguments didn’t work.

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