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Wayne NJ, The Wayne Board of Education is breaking tradition and inviting regular citizens to pull back the curtain on the district’s financial planning. In a move aimed at boosting transparency, the board has approved a new seven-member advisory committee to help navigate the complexities of the upcoming school budget.
Updated June 17, 2017
Posted June 17, 2017
By Adam Clark | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
TRENTON — Democratic lawmakers this week unveiled a school funding proposal that would affect most New Jersey districts’ state aid for the upcoming school year.
The plan, billed as a potential first step to solving the state’s school funding problems, has its winners, losers and plenty of school districts that wouldn’t see much of a difference either way.
Here are the Democratic plan’s 20 biggest winners for the upcoming school year based on the percentage a district’s state aid would change compared to Gov. Chris Christie’s budget proposal.
The plan would need Christie’s approval before taking effect.
Note: The list does not include non-operating school districts that send all students to other districts and receive little state aid.
https://www.nj.com/education/2017/06/the_10_biggest_winners_and_losers_in_dems_school_f.html
By Salvador Rizzo • 06/14/17 10:59pm
Hours after Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto and Senate President Steve Sweeney announced a deal to revamp New Jersey’s school funding formula, the state’s largest teachers union called it a “senseless and cruel” way to punish some students.
The leaders of the New Jersey Education Association issued statements Wednesday night blasting the deal unveiled by Prieto (D-Hudson) and Sweeney (D-Gloucester), who had sparred for months over their competing school funding proposals.
