A GOP Assemblyman says some districts have to lay off teachers as Newark spends its growing aid frivolously
A Central Jersey lawmaker who represents school districts facing steep cuts in state aid is asking the Department of Education to appoint a fiscal monitor for Newark’s mostly state-funded district, following revelations it spent $33,000 in aid on aand budgeted over $1 million this year for airfare and hotels at education conferences in Las Vegas and other destinations., questioned the spending by New Jersey’s largest school district, which relies on the state to pay for 83% of its $1.
“This frivolous $1 million spending alone could have restored all of the after-school busing lost in ALL school districts in Monmouth, Ocean, Middlesex, and Burlington Counties,” Sauickie said in a Dec. 1 email to Acting Education Commissioner, referring to areas he represents. “To the extent you can, it might make sense to assign Newark a state-appointed fiscal monitor.”After 33 years, N.J.
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