Leaders urge lawmakers to solve health benefits crisis and update state aid formula before cuts loom again next year

Lily Laux says she's ready to advise on NJ's school funding formula and is open to consolidating local operations

Assembly approves legislation that would apply to districts facing state funding cuts

Most will see increases in state aid, but the cuts dominate legislative hearing

Superintendents and others urge lawmakers to reform 15-year-old system

Think tank argues failure to revise school-funding formula impacts students with greatest needs and violates state Constitution

The decision reverses a 2021 finding by the state education commissioner

Calling it catastrophic, members of the Jersey City Board of Education say proposed cuts to state aid have the potential to dismantle the district.

The hearing is the first of two public hearings the Senate Budget Committee will hold.

The Assembly Budget Committee convenes for its first public hearing on the state’s fiscal year 2020 budget.

New Jersey's schools consistently rank among the top in the nation, even when you compare high-need districts in the state. A report analyzing the SFRA ...

Kingsway filed a lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to declare the current education funding model unconstitutional.

Added incentive for lawmakers to find a new way to fund schools. One desperate district is asking the state Supreme Court to step in. Some ...

The school funding fight. If Christie's "Fairness Formula" cuts taxes for the rich and education for the poor, do lawmakers have a better fix? Trump ...

New Jersey Democrats haven't come up with a unified plan for school funding, but they agree that Gov. Christie's proposal, which he calls the "Fairness ...

Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli has announced he's running for governor in 2017. He's the second politician to announce his candidacy, after Phil Murphy.

Pay back time. The feds find the Christie administration mishandled Sandy funds. Where did the money go? And how would the state find the cash ...

Dan Katz, an education professor at Seton Hall University, says Gov. Christie's plan to change the school funding formula doesn't provide equity across the state.

It's the week they dole out the money. Wrapping up the state budget has as much to do with votes to override a veto as ...

Senate President Steve Sweeney has introduced legislation that would reallocate how school funding money is spent.