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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.

https://observer.com/2017/06/njea-blasts-prieto-sweeney-deal-on-school-funding/?utm_campaign=new-jersey-politics&utm_content=2017-16-06-9858994&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=channel-new-jersey-politics-distribution

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