More than a hundred school districts statewide are staring down funding cuts. They’re casualties of the school funding formula which calculates how much state aid is given to districts every budget cycle. Gov. Phil Murphy last month moved to restore some of the money those schools are slated to lose. But it won’t be enough to avoid budget cuts.
In districts that have faced year-over-year cuts since the new school funding law was enacted, the comparisons drawn by some superintendents sound downright gruesome.
