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NJ School Funding: See How Much Point Pleasant Beach Is Receiving
New Jersey has released the proposed state aid figures for the 2024-25 school year. See how Point Pleasant Beach fared.
POINT PLEASANT BEACH, NJ — The Point Pleasant Beach School District is slated to receive a reduction 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.
While many districts are receiving additional funding in the 2024-25 budget, others are seeing a reduction in aid.
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Among those being cut back is the Point Pleasant Beach school district. The district is slated to receive $588,827, a reduction of $21,754 — 3.56 percent — from the $610,581 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.
Point Pleasant Beach is one of 17 districts in Ocean County that are seeing aid cuts. Of the remainder, 11 are receiving increases and one — the Ocean County Vocational Technical District — is seeing its funding stay the same as last year's amount.
Overall, Ocean County saw the greatest reduction in aid of any of the 21 counties, with a 6.65 percent reduction in aid overall. Monmouth County saw a 2.89 percent reduction in aid to its schools, and Cape May County saw a 2.21 percent reduction. All of the other counties saw an overall increase in aid.
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