{"id":7654,"date":"2016-02-22T02:13:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T07:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2016-02-22T02:13:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T07:13:45","slug":"state-funding-for-brick-school-to-increase-0-2-below-state-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/02\/state-funding-for-brick-school-to-increase-0-2-below-state-average\/","title":{"rendered":"State Funding for Brick Schools to Increase 0.2%, Below State Average"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3696\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bths.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3696\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3696\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bths-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"Brick Township High School (File Photo)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bths-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bths-290x195.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brick Township High School (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township\u2019s school district will receive a 0.2 percent increase in its state aid for the 2016-17 school year, adding up to $86,500.<\/p>\n<p>Statewide increases of aid averaged 0.9 percent, though Ocean County\u2019s districts as a whole had their aid increased by less than half that figure, at an average of 0.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Brick\u2019s state aid will be $35,938,828, a small portion of the district\u2019s $146 million budget. Specifically, Brick this year will receive $14,934,026 in adjustment aid, $9,463,269 in equalization aid, $4,922,064 in transportation aid, $5,393,423 in special education aid, $1,039,800 in security aid, $92,090 for PARCC test readiness, $92,090 in per-pupil growth aid, $2,066 in additional adjustment aid and $86,500 in learning community funding.<\/p>\n<p>As in previous years, the bulk of the state\u2019s education funding \u2013 over 60 percent \u2013 flows to the former \u201cAbbott\u201d districts under a court order. Newark, one of the former Abbotts, received an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njspotlight.com\/stories\/16\/02\/21\/2016-17-school-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\">additional $26.8 million<\/a> this year, the largest increase of any district in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Brick\u2019s Board of Education has not introduced its own 2016-17 budget yet, leaving the tax levy for the next school year unknown.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/02\/state-funding-for-brick-school-to-increase-0-2-below-state-average\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township&#8217;s school district will receive a 0.2 percent increase in its state aid for the 2016-17 school year, adding up to $86,500&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3696,"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":[4],"tags":[41,24,1941,1942],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-board-of-education","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-school-aid","tag-state-funding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bths.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1Zs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654","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=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}