APP reports Lakewood schools need state to fix funding formula and help the cash strapped district.
Board Attorney Inzelbuch, an alumnus of the high school, is emerging as a vocal figure in the burgeoning effort to lobby the state, threatening he and the entire Board of Education would resign if the state doesn't step in. With six times as many children in private and Jewish schools, called yeshivas, than public schools, but a state funding formula that counts public school enrollment, the district is left strapped for cash to cover basic costs, such as transportation. Lakewood's also faced soaring special education costs, another obligation of the public school budget.
Schools officials, allied with Sen. Bob Singer, R-Ocean, whose district includes Lakewood, point to special funding given to Atlantic City in recent years as justification for their request. And the district has commissioned two studies that assert the state funding formula is broken when it comes to Lakewood. They hope to combat the perennial problem this year by launching the funding fight early and hoping new state leadership will work in their favor Read more at APP.com
Board Attorney Inzelbuch, an alumnus of the high school, is emerging as a vocal figure in the burgeoning effort to lobby the state, threatening he and the entire Board of Education would resign if the state doesn't step in. With six times as many children in private and Jewish schools, called yeshivas, than public schools, but a state funding formula that counts public school enrollment, the district is left strapped for cash to cover basic costs, such as transportation. Lakewood's also faced soaring special education costs, another obligation of the public school budget.
Schools officials, allied with Sen. Bob Singer, R-Ocean, whose district includes Lakewood, point to special funding given to Atlantic City in recent years as justification for their request. And the district has commissioned two studies that assert the state funding formula is broken when it comes to Lakewood. They hope to combat the perennial problem this year by launching the funding fight early and hoping new state leadership will work in their favor Read more at APP.com