State Aid Increases For Gloucester Township School Districts

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — Both the Gloucester Township K-8 and the Black Horse Pike Regional school districts will see an increase in state aid, according to revised figures released by the state last week.

The new numbers show the Black Horse Pike Regional Schools (Highland, Timber Creek, Triton) would receive $34,123,559 in state aid, an increase of $534,501 (1.59 percent) from last year, when it received $33,589,058 from the state.

Meanwhile, the Gloucester Township K-8 School District sees an increase of $929,232 (1.82 percent) over its 2017-18 aid. The district can expect to receive $51,917,671, after seeing $50,988,439 in state aid last year.

Both amounts announced on Friday are the same amount Gov. Phil Murphy said the districts would get in his original budget message.

The Murphy administration says the new figures take significant steps to begin the process of fully and fairly funding New Jersey school districts, saying that $8.5 billion will be disbursed to the state's school districts, including an additional $68 million to bring aid in balance for underfunded districts.

“A stronger, fairer New Jersey means making sure that New Jersey's schools are receiving the funds they need to advance academic excellence for our students,” Murphy said. “After years of neglect, we are turning the page to bring a balanced approach to school aid by removing the growth cap on funding increases and finally beginning the process of fully implementing the state's school funding formula established in 2008.”

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