Some Seaside Park Families: Your $85,000 Bill May Be Due

Toms River schools have a message for a small group of Seaside Park families: They owe tens of thousands of dollars in back tuition.

These Seaside Park families had benefited from an agreement that allowed the town’s children to attend Toms River schools for free beginning in 2009. But Toms River officials said that agreement changed two years later, when the district began enforcing a rule that families who attended the district but lived outside Toms River’s borders must pay tuition, according to The Asbury Park Press.

Since the district ended the agreement, Toms River school officials say Seaside Park families owe the school system some $85,000 in back tuition, according to the APP.

In 2011-12 school year, all the tuition was paid in full; bit the following year, many of those students were displaced by Hurricane Sandy and living within areas served by Toms River Regional Schools. As a result, they did not have to pay tuition; but when those students returned to Seaside Park in 2013, they were required to begin paying tuition, according to Toms River officials, as reported in the APP.

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