School Budgets

New Jersey Governance in the Middle of a Pandemic: Run By and For NJEA

The NJEA’s investments are paying off.   New Jersey’s most powerful special interest has had a great recent run with…

4 years ago

In Asbury Park, A Call for the State Fiscal Monitor to Resign

Last night the Asbury Park Board of Education held its monthly meeting --with a bit of a twist. Since mid-March…

4 years ago

Tonight the Lakewood School Board Will Approve A Budget It Can’t Pay For.

Later today at its public meeting the Lakewood Board of Education will approve a budget of $204 million that assumes…

5 years ago

Murphy Talks Budget and Lakewood Gets Cash.

This morning the Lakewood Board of Education held a meeting in the high school auditorium for representatives from 127 private…

5 years ago

Your Taxes At Work in Lakewood: Trick or Treat?

I’ve been neglecting Lakewood and so decided to pop over to the district website and check the most recent School…

5 years ago

What Do NJ’s Pension Crisis, Lakewood Public Schools, and the Murphy-Sweeney Feud Have in Common?

There’s lots of coverage today on the New Jersey State Legislature’s rewrite of the Governor’s budget. Murphy included a millionaire’s…

5 years ago

A Preliminary Analysis of Murphy’s Education Budget from N.J.’s School Funding Expert

(This is a guest post from the anonymous writer of the great school funding blog called New Jersey Education Aid.…

7 years ago