State Budget

JerseyCAN Touts Murphy’s Budget Line For High-Dosage Tutoring to Combat COVID Learning Loss

(This is a press release.) On Friday Governor Murphy signed the State’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget into law.  Included in…

2 years ago

Here’s What You Need To Know About School Spending in Murphy’s New Budget

Today the New Jersey State Legislature will approve Gov. Phil Murphy’s $50.6 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins…

2 years ago

Sweeney’s New Public Policy Group Projects State School Spending To Creep To Almost $12 Billion

This week former Senate President Steve Sweeney's Center for Public Policy at Rowen University published a report that aims "to…

2 years ago

New Jersey Tops the Charts for High-Quality Preschools –But We’re Spending Almost $19K Per Child

The National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University just came out with its State of Preschool Yearbook for…

3 years ago

Winners and Losers As Murphy Administration Announces District State Aid Allocations

During Gov. Murphy's budget speech on Tuesday, one of the items that perked ears up was his announcement that state…

3 years ago

NJEA Leaders Praise Murphy For ‘Fully Funding’ Our ‘Best In the Nation’ Schools

NJEA’s officers, President Sean M. Spiller, Vice President Steve Beatty and Secretary-Treasurer Petal Robertson, released this statement Tuesday afternoon Gov.…

3 years ago

Let’s Talk about NJ’s Education Spending Accurately

(And Does NJ Neglect Non-Education Spending?) When New Jerseyans talk about New Jersey’s education spending, there is a widespread assumption…

3 years ago

LILLEY: According to Pew, NJ’s Pensions Are in Dire Shape But Murphy Just Bows to Union Pals

The title of NJSpotlight’s recent article on New Jersey’s pensions,”Public pension funds in better shape, study says,” conveys an overly…

3 years ago

Asbury Park: New Leaks Expose Tensions Between District Administrators and School Board Members

Student enrollment and state funding are dropping in Asbury Park Public Schools, requiring a recalibration of facililties and spending. These…

4 years ago

COMMENTARY: Camden’s Charters Are Dramatically More Cost-Effective Than District Schools

Do you cringe when an economist or policy wonk quantifies the value of a single child’s education? I do. How…

4 years ago