Op-ed: Threats to cut funding over "opt-outs" are on shaky legal ground

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May 1, 2015

Efforts to cut school funding as retribution for parental refusals are more likely to prompt the opposite political response

NJ Spotlight Op-ed by Julia Sass Rubin and Monty Neill, May 1

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