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Assembly Committee Votes On Public School Funding Transparency

By Devon Williams (NJ State House News Service) TRENTON, N.J. – A bill that would increase transparency on public school funding and provide earlier minimum-aid notices unanimously passed the Assembly Education Committee Monday. The bill, A3881, would change districts’ calculated local contribution to school costs by using multi-year averages instead of single-year averages of property […]

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