NJ Supreme Court revised school-funding plan NO MORE ABBOTT DISTRICTS (eventually) (Newark: property taxes, law)
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TRENTON -- In a stunning shift, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled today that a new school aid formula can replace three decades of rulings that sent billions of dollars to the state's poorest communities.
The court unanimously held the state's plan for school aid -- the School Funding Reform Act adopted last year by lawmakers at the behest of Gov. Jon Corzine -- is "a constitutionally adequate scheme."
[L]awyers for those poor districts, dominated by cities like Newark, Jersey City, New Brunswick, Paterson and Camden, insisted the ruling will ensure a steady erosion of gains made over the past decade and harm the 300,000 children who attend school there.
"The formula that the court has upheld is a major setback for children in both the high-poverty, urban districts but also in the higher-spending districts," said David Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center which has argued the case on behalf of the Abbott students.
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