??? on school budget (Jersey City: transplants, houses, school rankings)

[lets_hope_for_newbruns]

Move to Monroe where oldies disapproves school budgets most of the time. LOL

[njkate]

Originally Posted by lets_hope_for_newbruns

Move to Monroe where oldies disapproves school budgets most of the time. LOL

has nothing to do with "oldies" it's people of all ages that are becoming strapped by our ever increasing property taxes to support our schools and the Abbott Districts.

A way to reduce this is to have the schools COUNTY run and now town run with maybe the exception of the urban areas with a huge school district.

You tell me why a county like Morris has x amount of school districts each with their own over paid superintendent and the staff that goes along with that...

[EEEPNJ]

Originally Posted by njkate

has nothing to do with "oldies" it's people of all ages that are becoming strapped by our ever increasing property taxes to support our schools and the Abbott Districts.

A way to reduce this is to have the schools COUNTY run and now town run with maybe the exception of the urban areas with a huge school district.

You tell me why a county like Morris has x amount of school districts each with their own over paid superintendent and the staff that goes along with that...

what she said

[mike0421]

Originally Posted by njkate

has nothing to do with "oldies" it's people of all ages that are becoming strapped by our ever increasing property taxes to support our schools and the Abbott Districts.

A way to reduce this is to have the schools COUNTY run and now town run with maybe the exception of the urban areas with a huge school district.

You tell me why a county like Morris has x amount of school districts each with their own over paid superintendent and the staff that goes along with that...

A lot of people don't realize that in part because of what you say in this post, while NJ ranks #2 to Alaska in per pupil expenditure, they rank 49th (next to New York at 50th) to the amount of money that is actually spent in the classroom. The 'per pupil' expenditure should actually be more along the lines of 'per superintendent' or 'per school nurse', because so much of that money is dissolved in the form of salaries and other overhead, before it gets to the classroom level. And that's a shame.

[CaptainNJ]

i voted against the school budget. im sure it makes little difference since politicians will always make sure they and their cronies get their share.

[VeradoDan]

Originally Posted by njkate

has nothing to do with "oldies" it's people of all ages that are becoming strapped by our ever increasing property taxes to support our schools and the Abbott Districts.

A way to reduce this is to have the schools COUNTY run and now town run with maybe the exception of the urban areas with a huge school district.

You tell me why a county like Morris has x amount of school districts each with their own over paid superintendent and the staff that goes along with that...

Generally I'd agree, but this is New Jersey. Instead of having 10 superintendents making $170K, you have one superintendent making $200K and nine assistant superintendents making $185K.

Education is quite the racket. Amazing that in some states, people pay less than $1K a year in property taxes and have schools just as good as ours.

[Calico696]

My town voted down the proposition to add courtesy bussing for students that live less than 2 miles from the school. Thank goodness!! Kids can use all the exercise they can get these days, since they don't play outside anymore. If they are too young to walk themselves, let their parents walk them, most of them could probably use the exercise as well.

[njkate]

Originally Posted by VeradoDan

Generally I'd agree, but this is New Jersey. Instead of having 10 superintendents making $170K, you have one superintendent making $200K and nine assistant superintendents making $185K.

Education is quite the racket. Amazing that in some states, people pay less than $1K a year in property taxes and have schools just as good as ours.

and that's the truth..unreal isn't it

[njkate]

Originally Posted by mike0421

A lot of people don't realize that in part because of what you say in this post, while NJ ranks #2 to Alaska in per pupil expenditure, they rank 49th (next to New York at 50th) to the amount of money that is actually spent in the classroom. The 'per pupil' expenditure should actually be more along the lines of 'per superintendent' or 'per school nurse', because so much of that money is dissolved in the form of salaries and other overhead, before it gets to the classroom level. And that's a shame.

Absolutely!! The over paid fat cats need to go and a good amount of this money needs to filter down to the classroom.
Some districts have curtailed or eliminated field trips...field trips are part of education!!
get rid of the pencil pushers making $200K a year

Wake up NJ

[Obrero]

Originally Posted by VeradoDan

Amazing that in some states, people pay less than $1K a year in property taxes and have schools just as good as ours.

Where is this?