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NJ School Funding: See How Much Howell Is Receiving
New Jersey has released the proposed state aid figures for the 2024-25 school year. See how Howell fared.
HOWELL, NJ — The Howell Township School District is slated to receive an increase in state funding, under preliminary aid figures released by the New Jersey Department of Education on Thursday.
The education department released the figures in the wake of the preliminary budget announced by Gov. Phil Murphy for the 2025 fiscal year.
Howell is among the many districts receiving additional funding in the 2024-25 budget. The district is slated to receive $22,118,857 in aid, an increase of $1,517,548 — 7.37 percent — over the $20,601,309 it received for 2023-24.
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Farmingdale also is receiving more aid in 2024-25, $589,115, an increase of $47,823 over the $541,292 it received for 2023-24.
In his budget address Tuesday, Murphy said the proposed $55.9 billion spending plan included $11.7 billion for public school funding that he said fully funds the school funding formula for the first time.
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That formula was part of the School Funding Reform Act of 2008, which aimed to address school funding inequities. While many districts have received additional funding, more than 200 have seen aid cuts yearly since 2018, as a result of the revision to the SFRA known as S2 that was signed into law by Murphy. (S2 got its start in 2017, when then-Gov. Chris Christie and then-Senate President Stephen Sweeney made a deal that swapped the increase in the gasoline tax Christie wanted for cuts in state aid to districts that had been receiving adjustment aid.)
The 2024-25 fiscal year is supposed to be the last year of S2 and its cuts, but so far a new funding formula has not been put forth.
Howell is one of 37 districts in Monmouth County seeing aid increases. The Freehold Regional High School District is seeing no change in its aid level for 2024-25. The district had faced significant cuts under S2 until last year, when a new law canceled the cut initially announced for 2023-24.
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