Manalapan Schools to Receive Additional State Aid

An additional $600 million in state aid will be distributed to school districts throughout New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie’s office announced on Tuesday, July 12. $450 million will be given to Abbot districts and $150 million will be provided to non-Abbott districts. 

The Freehold Regional High School District will receive an added $1,717,860 bringing their new revised aid for the 2011-2012 school year to $48,069,354.

The Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District will be receiving $710,937 more in state aid than originally planned by the administration in February of 2011, bringing the newly revised total state aid for the 2011-2012 school year to 19,305,011 up from $18,594,074.

Sharon Silvia, the Assistant Business Administrator for the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District is happy for the additional money, but unsure of how the district make use of the funds. 

“With all the cuts that we have gotten it is nice to get some extra money, but we don’t know what kind of restrictions he (Gov. Christie) is going to put on it as to what we can utilize it for,” Silvia said. 

“This year, New Jersey increased state aid to school districts by $850 million over last year, restoring every dollar of the cuts we were forced to make last year and increasing aid by an additional $30 million," Gov. Christie said, as reported in the press release.  "We are keeping faith with our commitment to New Jersey’s children and families, spending more money per pupil on New Jersey’s students than almost any other state in the country.” 

The difference in aid change from 2010-2011 to present is $3,435,720 for the Freehold Regional High School District and $1,421,875 for the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District, meaning the state aid has essentially doubled from last year. Nevertheless, the numbers are not as high as they were in 2009-2010 when the Freehold Regional High School District received $53,212,627 in state aid and the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District received $21,433,559.

For a complete list of the funds each school district will be receiving, click here.