New Jersey § 18a:75-2

§ 18a:75-2.

A. It is the purpose of this compact to: 1. Establish and maintain close cooperation and understanding among executive, legislative,

professional, educational and lay leadership on a nationwide basis at the state and

local levels. 2. Provide a forum for the discussion, development, crystallization and recommendation

of public policy alternatives in the field of education. 3. Provide a clearing house of information on matters relating to educational problems

and how they are being met in different places throughout the nation, so that the

executive and legislative branches of state government and of local communities may

have ready access to the experience and record of the entire county, and so that both

lay and professional groups in the field of education may have additional avenues

for the sharing of experience and the interchange of ideas in the formation of public

policy in education. 4. Facilitate the improvement of state and local educational systems so that all of

them will be able to meet adequate and desirable goals in a society which requires

continuous qualitative and quantitative advance in educational opportunities, methods

and facilities. B. It is the policy of this compact to encourage and promote local and state initiative

in the development, maintenance, improvement and administration of educational systems

and institutions in a manner which will accord with the needs and advantages of diversity

among localities and states. C. The party states recognize that each of them has an interest in the quality and

quantity of education furnished in each of the other states, as well as in the excellence

of its own educational systems and institutions, because of the highly mobile character

of individuals within the nation, and because the products and services contributing

to the health, welfare and economic advancement of each state are supplied in significant

part by persons educated in other states.