If you think that New Jersey's public education financing strategy needs an overhaul - or maybe more importantly, if you don't - Governor Chris Christie outlines his Fairness Formula on Thursday, September 15, at the Bayville Elks Lodge, Route 9 in Berkeley Township.
Right now, poor districts get lots of aid, and some spend lots of money — but so do plenty of the richest districts in New Jersey, who'd get huge relief under Christie's plan.
“We know that people are being driven out of this state because of high property taxes, and we also know children across this state, especially in those 31 districts, are being driven from a productive, happy, successful future by a failed education system," Christie said. "Neither one of those things are acceptable to me.”
Governor Christie's consensus-building for his "Fairness Formula" approach to school aid and educational achievement reaches Wall Township Tuesday, when he leads a discussion at the Monmouth County Library branch on Allaire Road.