NJ Education Report

Loch Arbour, the tiny wealthy Ocean County village obliged to pay $68,000 a student under an equally tiny provision of the School Funding Reform Act (see this post), is suing Ocean Township.

On the last page of the 113-page S.F.R.A., reports the Star-Ledger this morning, is “one cryptic reference” that doesn’t name Loch Arbour or Ocean Township. This allusion somehow repeals the Kiely Bill, which keeps Loch Arbour’s cost for each of their 24 students (we said “tiny,” right?) to a relatively modest $16,000. But the repeal of the Kiely Bill bloats the cost per pupil to to the tune of $68,000 per child per year. Thus the suit, which addresses the constitutionality of the repeal of the Kiely Bill, not the constitutionality of S.F.R.A..