Yesterday’s Patch reports that the legislative budget committee has rejected Christie’s proposed school funding changes. The new plan did nothing anyway to address the massive transfer of money from suburban taxpayers to urban school districts. So in any case the plan remains the same: Rip us off.
Below we see what Belmar and a few of her neighbors receives under the new “fair” formula versus the old “unfair” formula.
Town NEW OLD CHANGE
Monmouth Avon Boro …………$234,020……$234,020…$0 0.0%
Monmouth Belmar Boro ………$1,222,932…$1,222,932…$0 0.0%
Monmouth Bradley Beach…….$1,224,183….$1,224,183…$0 0.0%
Monmouth Brielle Boro…………$870,253……$870,253….$0 0.0%
Monmouth Manasquan Boro…..$1,012,055…$1,012,055….$0 0.0%
Monmouth Sea Girt Boro………$185,103……$185,103…..$0 0.0%
Monmouth Lake Como…………$661,243……$661,243…..$0 0.0%
Monmouth Spring Lake Boro…..$350,211……$350,211….$0 0.0%
Monmouth Spring Lake Hghts…$478,960……$479,484…..$-0.1%
Monmouth Wall Twp………….$4,934,831….$4,941,743…..$-0.1%
Full list of towns available here.
Now I know Belmar residents pay at least $6 million a year in state income tax. We’re only getting 20% of it back in state aid. Some of our neighbors fare even worse. This is Trenton’s idea of “fair”.
The good news is that even though we’re paying twice for our kids’ (overpriced) educations, first through the income tax, then through our property tax, at least we’re getting the bestest, most wonderfulest education that unlimited funding can buy. Just ask the experts that are promoting the new plan:
There is agreement among the education community throughout the country that these standards are precisely the ones that best represent what high school graduates need to know and be able to do to meet the college and career readiness demands of the 21st Century.
I guess these guys are so smart they were able to figure out exactly what everyone should know. How on earth did we ever get by without them?
Post a Comment