The Newark School District will get $715,271,519 in state aid for the 2015-2016 fiscal year, the same as it received last year, according to recently released NJ Department of Education figures.
In a release, the Christie administration stated that total school aid for the next fiscal year was earmarked at over $12.7 billion, the fifth straight year of historic levels of state funding for New Jersey schools.
Overall, Essex County’s K-12 schools will receive $1,181,210,553 in projected state aid for 2015-2016, the same as the previous year.
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According to a related Patch story, while no district in the state lost aid, the overall budget for New Jersey’s 595 school districts increased by $5,204,365, an average of $8,746.83 per school district. Overall, the $5.2 million bump is just .06-percent increase year-over-year in the $7,960,011,347 statewide budget.
District by district state aid allocations are available online at the NJDOE website.
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