Jersey City Education Association Since 1878
Schools to be well-funded
but taxes will be going up
It took the Jersey City Board of Education five attempts to approve a budget for the 2021-22 school year. After spontaneous motions for funding arrangements outside the proposed budget failed, the board approved by a 5-4 vote the $827,401 budget presented by Superintendent of Schools Franklin Walker, which officials and activists say comes the closest to full funding the district has had in a decade.
Jersey Times
NJ State Supreme Court
We conclude that the release time provisions serve a public purpose and are so consonant with the accomplishment of that public purpose that they do not offend the gift clause.
JJ Story here
The ruling said the state Legislature empowered the boards of education to govern teachers’ compensation and “release time” is a tool used to accomplish the goal.
Jersey City Education Association
1600 John F Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City New Jersey 07305
Phone 201.435.6600 201.435.4623 Fax
