Life On Broadway: Abbott District Funding Helps Gloucester Students

Doyle will report the results of his inquiries by March 31 to the court.

Bob Ingle, a columnist for the Courier Post, alleged on Sunday that the money is being wasted and \”the kids in those 31 districts are not showing a lot of improvement for the money spent.\”

Ingle continued, \”Like so many other empty-headed government solutions, it is based on throwing money at a problem instead of finding root causes and working on correcting them.\”

According to a teacher he quotes, the problem is with the parents and the home environment – where education is not emphasized.

Yet, here in Gloucester City, many parents do indeed care about the education their children are receiving.

In fact, in the recent High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) tests, 11^th graders at Gloucester City High School improved 8.6 percent in Language Arts and 6.3 percent in Math.

Obviously, this improvement comes from the students studying, the teachers teaching, and the parents caring.

As for the 30 other Abbotts in New Jersey, I cannot say if the court-ordered funding is working.

But, it is working here.

I would ask Mr. Ingle, and the teacher he quoted, to visit the Gloucester City School District and see the difference the state funds have made over the past 25 years.

Hard working parents in this humble town know that education can be the difference between a life of poverty and a successful career.