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In a town hall meeting with Princeton Township Mayor Chad Goerner and Princeton Borough Council member Kevin Wilkes, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie congratulated the two Princetons on the recent vote in favor of consolidation.

“We have to start not just talking about challenging the status quo, but actually challenging it,” Christie said, calling the Princetons an example for the rest of the state.

Former New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio expands on the op-ed piece he wrote for The Newark Star Ledger linking citizen discontent to rapid, dramatic change in every sector and the need for public policy to respond to it. Community Room

New Jersey Governer Chris Christie will deliver a policy address at Princeton University. 

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Opening Speaker - Christine Todd Whitman
50th Governor of New Jersey and former
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Admission $20 / $10 for Students
On-line registration at www.anjec.org. To register, Click Here.     

A Task Force report unveiled last month by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recommends making student test performance an important criterion in teacher evaluation. While that would reflect well on Princeton teachers, it runs counter to the approach adopted by Princeton Regional Schools. Princeton Charter School, on the other hand, has expressed measured support for Christie’s reforms.

With unemployment in the state of New Jersey hovering just above 9 percent, jobless community members are challenging state legislators to address their concerns. Residents gathered at the Princeton Public Library for a town hall meeting on Tuesday evening, February 15, which allowed struggling residents the opportunity to listen to legislators explain what New Jersey was doing to help them.

Katie DeVito, founder and president of NJ Unemployed, organized the forum to empower jobless locals and give them up-to-date information about the most recent employment legislation.

Andrew Ross Sorkin, chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and columnist for The New York Times, and Gary Gensler, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, will discuss "Banks, Shadow Banks, and the New Face of Wall Street" at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, November 22, in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall.

They will be joined by former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School. The discussion is the fifth in the School's Financial Market Regulation series.

Yvonne Chen, Managing Director at the compensation consulting firm Pearl Meyer & Partners, LLC, and Robert Jackson, Jr., an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and former deputy to the Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation, will participate in a discussion titled "Defining the 'New Normal' in Executive Compensation" at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, November 8, in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall. They will be joined by former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School.

Princeton voters have agreed to a 3.9% tax hike to support next year's $71 million school budget.  The budget passed by more than 2-to-1, a significant margin, given that more than half of NJ municipalities rejected their school budgets yesterday. (see Packet coverage of district-by-district results)

On March 16, Governor Chris Christie announced a 67% loss in state aid for PRS--$3.7 million.  Compounded with rising costs and some loss of revenue, the 2010-11 PRS budget foresees $6.7 million in cuts, impacting: