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The old line about the three kind of lies - Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics never held truer. The State of NJ hemorrhaged cash in the past 12 months, especially from the Income Tax collections (the amnesty notwithstanding), and the governor still managed to fund public education at or above the same level as 2008/09, and this guy is CRYING because the Abbott districts finally saw a SLIGHT diminishment in their state funding so that some of the slightly less worse districts could finally get a bit more. OMG. Shut Up. These districts have been bleeding NJ dry for decades. Why not ask local taxpayers to put up a bit more (or in the case of Camden, SOMETHING, since they pay NOTHING today). Most of these districts receive between 15 & 20K per child from the state. Meanwhile, the suburban districts get by with $1,000 or less, with the balance being made up by their local taxpayers! The same local taxpayers who pay 99% of the Income Tax which the NJ Supreme Court, at your insistence, that then gets shoveled into the Abbott districts. Time to suck it up and find out how the rest of the world lives. P.S. You might find more sympathy if the results of all that money hadn't been NO CHANGE in educational progress.