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yankee1-99n7
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anon-97on
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 Posted: Fri, Mar 1 2013, 5:16 pm EST Post subject: Re: School funding |
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Keep in mind the state funding of education comes from taking a share of our local taxes then re-distributing them back to school districts unevenly. Cranbury gets by far the least funding back from the state (less than half as much as the next smallest recipient in Middlesex County and 1/12th what goes to Jamesburg), far less than we send it. So Cranbury is subsidizing other school districts in addition to almost fully self-funding our own. If we were received no money from the state but did not have to send it any money for education, our taxes would go down despite the same budget. On top of that unfunded state mandates account for over a third of the school’s budget.
So for those budget hawks out there who say our property taxes are too high, please direct your letters to Governor Chris Christie and the State Legislature and Senate.
Here’s the funding to the school districts in our immediate area versus Cranbury:
Cranbury: $451,000
Jamesburg: $5 Million
Monroe: $2.64 Million
South Brunswk: $23.2 Million
East Windsor: $18.4 Million
WW-Plainsboro: $7.3 Million
Hamilton: $73.4 Million
Princeton: $3.4 Million |
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anon-18:7-q277
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| Posted: Fri, Mar 8 2013, 8:21 am EST Post subject: Re: School funding |
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| I am amazed that there is so little concern as to how we are being shortchanged regarding school funding. I sure would love to know what our local officals are doing to remedy this inequity. The property taxes in total[school,municipal,county] in Cranbury have risen more than 5% this year. If you compare them to the previous year that is a pretty steep increase. If you go back and track your increases over the past ten to twenty years on an annual basis the amount of increase is staggering. It baffles me why this doesn't concern more folks. Is the per capita income so high that it doesn't matter to most folks? or are we all just willing to stand back and let the politicians completly bankrupt us. I'd just love to know what the committee is doing to correct this at the state level? Its about time we get some committee members that are less interested in main street and more interested in the tax dilema we are facing. |
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huh?-8p94
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| Posted: Fri, Mar 8 2013, 8:26 am EST Post subject: Re: School funding |
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| anon-18:7-q277 wrote: | | I am amazed that there is so little concern as to how we are being shortchanged regarding school funding. I sure would love to know what our local officals are doing to remedy this inequity. The property taxes in total[school,municipal,county] in Cranbury have risen more than 5% this year. If you compare them to the previous year that is a pretty steep increase. If you go back and track your increases over the past ten to twenty years on an annual basis the amount of increase is staggering. It baffles me why this doesn't concern more folks. Is the per capita income so high that it doesn't matter to most folks? or are we all just willing to stand back and let the politicians completly bankrupt us. I'd just love to know what the committee is doing to correct this at the state level? Its about time we get some committee members that are less interested in main street and more interested in the tax dilema we are facing. |
Exactly what are local official supposed to do to change the state funding? Armed insurrection? |
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anon-8670
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| Posted: Fri, Mar 8 2013, 11:40 am EST Post subject: Re: School funding |
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What would you have our committee do? We don't have a lot of voters and if we sat out a state election it wouldn't matter.
The state looks to votes. Jamesburg has 6,000 people even though it's smaller.
Our committee has passed resolutions and joined fights for more aid. People have to pay taxes and the town can't force it be returned. |
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anon-97on
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| Posted: Fri, Mar 8 2013, 1:19 pm EST Post subject: Re: School funding |
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| anon-8670 wrote: | What would you have our committee do? We don't have a lot of voters and if we sat out a state election it wouldn't matter.
The state looks to votes. Jamesburg has 6,000 people even though it's smaller.
Our committee has passed resolutions and joined fights for more aid. People have to pay taxes and the town can't force it be returned. |
The state does care about votes and we are tiny, but that's not why Jamesburg gets 11-times what we get in school funding. If that were the case, Monroe would get far more than Jamesburg but they get less. In fact, when you look at the disparity versus population, it's even more outrageous that Monroe is having to sue Jamesburg to pay them what they owe for sending all their kids to their schools. But even with $5 million in money from the state that ultimately came from our taxes, they aren't paying their bills.
The problem is state education funding is entirely "need based," but with poor definition since there is no standard per-pupil cost that defines that need. In fact, as a general rule the poorest districts are spending more per student than we do or the average. But it's almost entirely subsidized by the state via our taxes. So instead of making Jamesburg live within their means, they make all us pay for them. And while there is some logic to not screwing the kids in this process, the system where we collectively pay a strong majority of the bills but still let the locals who have failed on their own make all the decisions about how to spend the money is poor because there's almost no accountability. Why should there be -- it's not their money. If Jamesburg can't pay for most of it's own education, they haven't demonstrated the capacity to run their own education. |
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anon-8670
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| Posted: Fri, Mar 8 2013, 1:26 pm EST Post subject: Re: School funding |
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| I agree on school funding. I was talking about town as you have not just municipal aid which is zero from the state, but grant dollars as well which the state hands out. |
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anon-140r
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| Posted: Sun, Jun 16 2013, 4:10 pm EDT Post subject: Re: School funding |
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| Are these increases in funding or the total funding for Cranbury School from the state? |
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