TIPS AND SNIPPETS
FUNDING FOR ABBOTT DISTRICTS ENDING-Judge Peter E. Doyne, the Bergen County judge charged with reviewing the Corzine administration\’s new schools-funding formula recommended last week that New Jersey\’s top court approves the plan if the state provides at least three years of supplemental funding for 31 low-income school districts.
This year, the first under the new formula, most Abbott districts received the smallest aid given. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer in the 2010-11 school year, most are projected to get no increase. The local Abbott districts are Camden, Burlington City, Gloucester City, and Pemberton Township.
The majority of the money for Gloucester City’s $40 million school budget comes from the State of NJ. Will that burden in three years be passed on to the local taxpayers? What about the state funding for the Gloucester City middle school? When first proposed the construction cost was $20 million, since then it has increased to an estimated $60 million. According to a school board member construction hopefully will begin the end of this year or sometime in 2010.
But where will the money come from?
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