New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will lay out his ideas for overhauling teacher tenure, giving parents a choice in where their children attend school and shoring up a teetering public worker pension system in his first State of the State address.
Christie told The Associated Press in an interview that he plans to stick to three themes Tuesday in a speech that will top out at under 30 minutes: education reform; changes to the pension and health benefits funds for government workers, teachers, police and firefighters; and responsible budgeting.
“It’s going to be brisk and direct,” Christie said of the speech, “talking about those things and why they’re so important to the future of the state. We’ll do a little bit of a review of where we’ve been and what we accomplished our first year in office, but the majority of the speech will be talking about those three big issues to me.”