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NJDOE regulations also direct high needs districts to "begin planning for implementation" of more focused programs to improve mathematics and language arts performance and to reduce class sizes. In addition, the recent Abbott XX ruling made clear that the Abbott supplemental programs - tutoring, parent involvement, drop-out prevention and others - have not been eliminated and that "the resources provided through SFRA should enable" these districts "to select and deliver" the Abbott programs "that are appropriate and necessary" for their students. And high needs districts will have to implement tougher high school graduation course requirements, and new high school exit exams, under a plan adopted by the State Board of Education in June.
The Legislature's decision to jettison SFRA means that students in underperforming schools in high needs districts - the vast majority of whom are low-income and Black and Latino - will have fewer resources than the formula prescribes as necessary to meet state academic standards. The aid cuts deprive these students of the funding their schools need to improve performance, provide needed supplemental programs, and meet new State high school course and graduation mandates.
Danielle Farrie, ELC Research Director, contributed to this report.
don't believe me? check my the facts yourself at this website or simple look at the NJ department of education website:
http://www.edlawcenter.org/ELCPublic/AbbottvBurke/AbbottProfile.htm
If it is the state of New Jersey's job to provide public education, and it is as far as our state constitution is concerned, then all of the state's children should be treated equally.