Budget & Finance
The new state budget signed this week includes funding for a program dubbed the School-Based Partnerships for Access and Resilience, or Spark, which will be launched as a pilot program before expanding to all of New Jersey’s schools.
As New Jersey lawmakers push for financial literacy requirements, students learn money management skills through the teacher-developed Financially L.I.T course.
The FBI is interested in probing New Horizons, a school on probation for three years. Why aren’t New Jersey education officials?
Newark Assemblymember Eliana Pintor Marin said she’s had “enough” of GOP lawmakers’ criticism of Newark schools’ spending.
A group of Republicans wants more scrutiny of Newark Public Schools’ finances after the district proposed a nearly $500 million lease agreement for a new school.
Funding to schools and programs remains the district’s largest expenditure, followed by charter school payments, which grew by $5 million for the upcoming school year.
Sherrill’s first budget proposes more than $13.8 billion to education with record funding for K-12 and preschool aid, expanded high-impact tutoring, and new mental health services timed to the state’s first year of phone-free schools.
There are multiple contracts between Newark Public Schools and Driscoll Foods authorizing the district to spend up to $12 million with the food supplier.
New Jersey Democrats are strongly opposed to Ciattarelli’s plan saying it would bankrupt New Jersey’s budget.
The money funds programs that support English language learners, tutoring, STEM education, before- and after-school services, summer school, and teacher training.
El distrito calificó las declaraciones del legislador de "infundadas e indignantes" y sus llamados "exponen conceptos erróneos profundamente arraigados sobre nuestro distrito y, más generalmente, los distritos escolares urbanos de Nueva Jersey".
The district called the lawmaker's statements "baseless and outrageous."
El aumento de la ayuda a las escuelas públicas de Newark sería alrededor de un 6%, o $75 millones, más que en el actual año fiscal.
The increase in aid for Newark Public Schools would be about 6%, or $75 million, more than the current fiscal year.
The governor’s proposed budget includes $12.1 billion in school aid, marking a consecutive year of fully funding the state’s school aid formula.