California’s budget crisis has come home to roost as the 2009 Nation’s Report Card puts the state lower than the nation’s average for fourth graders and eighth graders on the biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

However, it appears that Corbett doesn’t believe in shared sacrifice, at least when it comes to the distribution of his education cuts. Corbett has proposed about $1 billion in education cuts, and as the Education Law Center found, cuts for students living in poverty are in some instances ten times as deep as those for students in wealthier districts:

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New Jersey’s poorest students have been hurt the most by Governor Chris Christie and the Legislature underfunding schools by $1.6 billion, a state-court judge said in a report filed in a lawsuit over budget cuts.

School Funding Reform Act of 2008