Save Our Schools Rallies Against Underfunding of Public Education
Parents and education leaders across New Jersey lament continued underfunding of public education in the 2013 state budget.
Editor's note: The following is a news release by Save Our Schools NJ.
Parents, Board of Education members, and Superintendents from fifteen communities across New Jersey discussed the impact of the state’s persistent underfunding of public education at a mid-day Statehouse event organized by the grassroots group Save Our Schools NJ last week.
Organizers pointed to more than $3.6 billion in school funding cuts since 2010, including $715 million in Governor Christie’s proposed 2012-13 State Budget. That Budget would underfund almost 90 percent of all school districts across the state.
“New Jersey has a school funding formula which distributes state aid based on the needs of individual children, wherever they live,” said Julia Sass Rubin, a Save Our Schools NJ spokesperson. “The proposed FY 2013 State Budget would underfund that formula for the fourth year in a row.