“I think that’s probably the only logical conclusion when you have less than half of your per pupil expenditures actually making their way into the classroom,” Burke said. “You have a system in which the administrative bloat has really gotten out of control and that puts a tremendous strain on state budgets which is part of what we see playing out here.”
Where are your education dollars going in New Jersey?
The data shows $8,588 dollars a year is used for classroom costs including teacher salaries, books and supplies, while the rest goes for staff pensions and benefits, administrative costs, debt service, operational costs and transportation.
Lindsey Burke, an education policy fellow at The Heritage Foundation, believes it’s a system that appears to be spiraling out of control. (Matthau/NJ101.5
