New Jersey has filed another application for federal education money – one that’ll almost certainly be approved – unlike the state’s recently rejected “Race To The Top” bid that cost state Education Commissioner Bret Schundler his job last month.

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KYW’s David Madden reports that the Garden State lost some $400-million, some suggest, because the state failed to provide proper documentation for it’s bid. This time, $268-million is on the line, and the application is a lot simpler.

Barbara Keshishian is president of the New Jersey Education Association, and an outspoken critic of the Christie Administration:

“The application consisted of checking one of two boxes, signing and dating the application and sending it in. So there was really not a whole lot of ways that this could have been wrong.”

The money will restore 3,900 jobs which were eliminated when the governor slashed state funding for school districts by $820-million. Administration officials did not make themselves available for comment.