Ms. Delores T. Corona This is Me

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1. 1. Delores T. Corona -- Private (Religious) School Vouchers

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   Published on: 10/31/2003   Last Visited: 10/31/2003

   Delores T. Corona -- Private (Religious) School Vouchers
   
   DELORES T. CORONA was introduced.Since 1985, Ms. Corona has been Director of Government Relations for the New Jersey Educational Association.She is member of the National Association of Legislative and Political Specialists for Education, and the National Staff Association of Education Association.Her address focused on "The Dangers of Private School Vouchers."
   
   Ms. Corona began by outlining some of the goals for her group, including higher academic standards, paying attention to the diverse needs of students, smaller classes and constant teacher upgrading.She noted that in states like New Jersey, teachers in public schools often encounter a diverse range of students; she added that smaller class size and parental involvement in education must be a key objective in education reform.
   
   Corona then discussed the private voucher "experiment" proposed by Jersey City Mayor Bert Schundler; thanks to public activism by teachers and public school supporters, however, the program was abandoned by the state legislature.
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   Corona noted that at the present time, there is little support for vouchers in either the House or the Senate of the state legislature.
   
   Ms. Corona then suggested that many voucher supporters are motivated by a desire to erode and dismantle the public education system, in favor of sectarian, religious schools."The motivation is not educational, it's more ideological."
   
   Other points made by Delores Corona:
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   Corona suggested that vouchers drain funds from the public education system.
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   Corona suggested that they will not.
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   Ms. Corona then discussed the controversial voucher program underway in Milwaukee.Unfortunately, the Wisconsin state Supreme Court upheld the program, which will cover some 15,000 students with vouchers which can be used toward tuition at private and sectarian schools.That decision, unfortunately, has stimulated voucher proposals in Texas, Arizona, New York and elsewhere.
   
   Finally, Corona noted that despite swollen enrollment, limited budgets and other problems, public education continues to improve.

2. 2. Events

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   Published on: 2/22/2006   Last Visited: 2/26/2006

   A-Teamers will be joined by veteran political organizer Dolores Corona who served for many years as the Government Affairs Director for the New Jersey Education Association.

3. 3. Princeton Public Affairs Group : What Others Say

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   Published on: 7/24/2001   Last Visited: 8/16/2006

   Trenton veteran Dolores Corona, who didn't make the brunch this year, has been part of the lobbying industry for 27 years.She's now director of government relations for the New Jersey Education Association, the public school employees' union and perhaps the most powerful lobby in the state.
   
   Back in the 1970s, she says, things in Trenton were a lot less formal.There were no committee meetings or task forces to dissect bills.Lawmakers finished their business in May and did not return until the fall, and they had no offices in the Statehouse.
   
   "You would pigeonhole them in the hallways," she recalls, and you could count the number of contract lobbying firms on one hand.There were two."I've seen the proliferation," says Corona, whose own staff grew from four people in 1975 to seven full-time lobbyists today.The expansion was necessary, she says, to handle relations with government agencies, candidate endorsements and training.
   
   "Even today, you get a lot of the aides, or people who have worked with the majority or minority party, who leave and start their own lobbying firm," she says."And most of them are doing quite well."