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Old 06-11-2019, 06:17 PM
 
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Rich towns have school buses. We have to pay if we want our kids to take the bus though. We only used it for 2 years, but it was around $750.
Ouch, in Elizabeth or Linden. The bus is free.
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Old 06-12-2019, 03:47 AM
 
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There's no reason that some of those can't combine into one larger district. There are way too many districts on that list for the size of NJ. NJ taxes would be much lower if towns consolidated their services. I'm not saying Montclair and Millburn need to combine with Newark. But couldn't cities like Millburn, Livingston, and West Orange for example consolidate their school districts? Like nearby cities of similar wealth should have no issue consolidating, but they do.
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Old 06-20-2019, 09:36 PM
 
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It's really interesting to see that (1) many of the better districts have relatively low spending per pupil and (2) Alpine and Saddle River spend tons notwithstanding having no high school (guess send/receive is marked up).
I’m guessing that Alpine and Saddle River have small student populations due to being small towns and a significant percent of kids who live there are going to private or boarding school. Hence, the per kid spend is relatively large, and the schools are probably getting a lot of resources.
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