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The problem isn't state aid, because whatever NJ provides via the income tax to "offset" property taxes immediately gets swallowed up by the black hole of public education - the NJEA.
Even at the height of the recession, we still see school districts signing contracts that give teachers and other staffers 4 - 4.5% annual increases, and maintain their Cadillac health care plans that are 100% taxpayer funded. In all, about a 5% annual comp increase. That is unsustainable and is the ROOT of our education "funding" problem.
It's sad that someone with a doctorate and the head of the administrators' association doesn't understand this or will not acknowledge it.
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Friday
May 25th
It's the Teachers' Contracts - Duh
This is a comment on "Christie’s depleting of school district savings has to result in increased N.J. property taxes"
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 08:38
Kerri Batche
My husband is a high school teacher. His salary is very low compared to what he would make if he took his college education and worked in the private sector. In the past 3 years his high schol has raised the SAT scores in all three catagories a MINIMUM of 25 points. The teachers at his school are devoted and spend their careers improving the education for YOUR children. If you think it's such a cake job that their meager salaries are out of line, why don't you home school your kids for a year and see what a demanding profession it is? I get so sick and tired of people unloading on teachers.The real problem with NJ's budget as with every other state budget, is waste and fraud which has developed over the years as politicians play the political game.
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