{"id":3638,"date":"2015-03-02T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T10:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2015-03-02T01:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T06:32:04","slug":"bricks-state-school-aid-to-remain-flat-for-2015-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/03\/bricks-state-school-aid-to-remain-flat-for-2015-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick’s State School Aid to Remain Flat For 2015-16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brick Township Board of Education\/Schools (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

The amount of state aid Brick Township receives to run its school system will remain flat for the 2015-16 school year, according to figures released by the state.<\/p>\n

The total amount of aid for the K-12 district will be $35,938,828, the same amount the district received for the current school year. Part of that figure \u2013\u00a0$9,463,269 \u2013 is what is known as \u201cequalization aid,\u201d which the state provides to Brick after making a determination that its tax levy is effectively too low.<\/p>\n

The district also receives $4,922,064 in transportation aid, $5,393,423 in special education aid and $1,039,800 in security aid. Additionally, the state will provide the district with $92,090 to help it get ready for students to take the PARCC test and $92,090 in per-pupil growth aid.<\/p>\n

Much of the district\u2019s aid, $14,934,026, is adjustment aid, essentially discretionary aid given to districts in the state\u2019s funding formula.<\/p>\n

Long criticized by suburban residents paying highest-in-the-nation property taxes<\/a>, New Jersey\u2019s funding formula provides the majority of its education funding to 31 mainly urban, low-income districts, formerly known as \u201cAbbott\u201d districts after the series of Supreme Court decisions bearing that name. A lack of state aid means local taxpayers must fund more of their districts\u2019 budgets, leading to higher property tax levies given a lesser amount of assistance from the state. In the 2015-16 budget, about 65 percent of the state\u2019s total educational funding is provided to those districts, out of 590 total.<\/p>\n

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The amount of state aid Brick Township receives to run its school system will remain flat for the 2015-16 school year, according to figures released by the state. The total amount of aid for the K-12 district will be $35,938,828, the same amount the district received for the current school year. Part of that figure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[1030,24,1028,1029],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-schools","tag-abbott-districts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-school-funding-formula","tag-state-aid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0004.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-WG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}