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Cps: elementary learning disabilities teacher consultant.

• Collingswood, NJ, US
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• Collingswood Public Schools

Position Type: Student Support Services/LDTC Date Posted: 10/6/2023 Location: District Date Available: Closing Date: 04/30/2024 CPS: Learning

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ANTICIPATED - Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant (LDTC) 2024-2025 School Year (tenure track po

• Englishtown, NJ, US
• Freehold Regional High School District

Position Type: Student Support Services/Learning Disabilities Teachers Consultant (LDTC) Date Posted: 4/12/2024 Location: Freehold Regional High

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Learning Disability Teacher-Consultant (LDTC)

• West New York, NJ, US
• West New York School District

Position Type: Student Support Services/Learning Disability Teacher-Consultant Date Posted: 5/2/2023 Location: District

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Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant (NBOE)

• Newark, NJ, US
• Newark Public Schools

Position Type: Instructional - Other Titles/Learning Dis Tchr ConsultantDate Posted: 10/23/2020Location: Special Education -408 NEWARK BOARD OF ED

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Learning Disability Teacher Consultant (NBOE)

Position Type: Instructional - Other Titles/Learning Dis Tchr ConsultantDate Posted: 5/17/2021Location: Various Newark Board of Education Locations

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Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant - Elementary School

• Pennington, NJ, US
• Hopewell Valley Regional School District

Position Type: Pupil Services Positions/Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant Date Posted: 3/25/2024 Location: Administration Building Date A

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This page is designed to provide New Jersey employment seekers access to open positions for educational employment by location.  To access a location, select a county and click the district or charter school links to the personnel section of each website to explore possible career opportunities.

Atlantic County

• Absecon Public Schools District
• Atlantic City School District
• Atlantic Community Charter School
• Atlantic County Special Services School District
• Atlantic County Vocational School District
• Brigantine Public School District
• Buena Regional School District
• Chartertech High School for the Performing Arts
• Corbin City School District
• Egg Harbor City School District
• Egg Harbor Township School District
• Estell Manor School District
• Folsom Borough School District
• Galloway Township Public School District
• Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District
• Hamilton Township School District
• Hammonton School District
• Linwood City School District
• Mainland Regional High School
• Margate City School District
• Mullica Township School District
• Northfield City School District
• Pleasantville Public School District
• Port Republic School District
• Principle Academy Charter School
• Somers Point School District
• Ventnor City School District
• Weymouth Township School District

Bergen County

• Allendale Public School District
• Alpine School District
• Bergen Arts and Science Charter School
• Bergen County Special Services School District
• Bergen County Vocational Technical School District
• Bergenfield Borough School District
• Bogota Public School District
• Carlstadt Public School District
• Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional High School District
• Cliffside Park School District
• Closter Public School District
• Cresskill Public School District
• Demarest School District
• Dumont Public School District
• East Rutherford School District
• Edgewater School District
• Elmwood Park School District
• Emerson Public School District
• Englewood Cliffs School District
• Englewood Public School District
• Fair Lawn Public School District
• Fairview Public School District
• Fort Lee School District
• Franklin Lakes School District
• Garfield Public School District
• Glen Rock Public School District
• Hackensack School District
• Harrington Park School District
• Hasbrouck Heights School District
• Haworth Public School District
• Hillsdale School District
• Ho-Ho-Kus School District
• Leonia Public School District
• Little Ferry Public School District
• Lodi School District
• Lyndhurst Public School District
• Mahwah Township Public School District
• Maywood School District
• Midland Park School District
• Montvale Board of Education School District
• Moonachie School District
• New Milford Public School District
• North Arlington School District
• Northern Highlands Regional High School District
• Northern Valley Regional High School District
• Northvale Public School District
• Norwood Public School District
• Oakland Public School District
• Old Tappan Public School District
• Oradell Public School District
• Palisades Park School District
• Paramus Public School District
• Park Ridge School District
• Pascack Valley Regional High School District
• Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District
• Ramsey School District
• Ridgefield Park Public School District
• Ridgefield School District
• Ridgewood Public School District
• River Dell Regional School District
• River Edge School District
• River Vale Public School District
• Rochelle Park School District
• Rutherford School District
• Saddle Brook School District
• Saddle River School District
• South Bergen Jointure Commission School District
• South Hackensack School District
• Teaneck Community Charter School
• Teaneck School District
• Tenafly Public School District
• Upper Saddle River School District
• Waldwick School District
• Wallington Boro School District
• Westwood Regional School District
• Wood-Ridge School District
• Woodcliff Lake School District
• Wyckoff Township Public School District

Burlington County

• Bass River Township Board of Education
• Benjamin Banneker Preparatory Charter School
• Beverly City School District
• Bordentown Regional School District
• Burlington City Public School District
• Burlington County Institute of Technology School District
• Burlington County Special Services School District
• Burlington Township School District
• Chesterfield Township School District
• Cinnaminson Township School District
• Delanco Township School District
• Delran Township School District
• Eastampton Township School District
• Edgewater Park Township School District
• Evesham Township School District
• Florence Township School District
• Hainesport Township School District
• Lenape Regional High School District
• Lumberton Township Board of Education
• Mansfield Township School District
• Maple Shade School District
• Medford Lakes School District
• Medford Township School District
• Moorestown Township Public School District
• Mount Holly Township Public School District
• Mount Laurel Township School District
• New Hanover Township
• North Hanover Township School District
• Northern Burlington County Regional School District
• Palmyra Public School District
• Pemberton Township School District
• Rancocas Valley Regional High School District
• Riverbank Charter School of Excellence
• Riverside Township School District
• Riverton School District
• Shamong Township School District
• Southampton Township School District
• Springfield Township School District
• Tabernacle Township School District
• Washington Township School District
• Westampton Township Public School District
• Willingboro Public School District
• Woodland Township School District

Camden County

• Audubon Public School District
• Barrington School District
• Bellmawr Public School District
• Berlin Borough School District
• Berlin Township School District
• Black Horse Pike Regional School District
• Brooklawn Public School District
• Camden City School District
• Camden County Educational Services Commission
• Camden County Technical School District
• Camden's Promise Charter School
• Cherry Hill School District
• Clementon Elementary School District
• Collingswood Public School District
• Eastern Camden County Regional School District
• Environment Community Opportunity (ECO) Charter School
• Freedom Prep Charter School
• Gibbsboro Elementary School District
• Gloucester City Public School District
• Gloucester Township Public Schools
• Haddon Heights School District
• Haddon Township School District
• Haddonfield School District
• Hope Community Charter School
• KIPP: Cooper Norcross, A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation
• Laurel Springs School District
• Lawnside School District
• LEAP Academy University Charter School
• Lindenwold Public School District
• Magnolia School District
• Mastery Schools of Camden, Inc.
• Merchantville School District
• Mt. Ephraim School District
• Oaklyn Public School District
• Pennsauken Township Board of Education School District
• Pine Hill School District
• Runnemede Public School District
• Somerdale School District
• Sterling Regional School District
• Stratford School District
• Voorhees Township School District
• Waterford Township School District
• Winslow Township School District
• Woodlynne School District

Cape May County

• Avalon School District
• Cape May City School District
• Cape May County Special Services School District
• Cape May County Technical High School District
• Dennis Township School District
• Lower Cape May Regional School District
• Lower Township Elementary School District
• Middle Township Public School District
• North Wildwood School District
• Ocean City School District
• Stone Harbor School District
• Upper Township School District
• West Cape May School District
• Wildwood City School District
• Wildwood Crest Borough School District
• Woodbine School District

Cumberland County

• Bridgeton City School District
• Bridgeton Public Charter School
• Commercial Township School District
• Compass Academy Charter School
• Cumberland County Board of Vocational Education
• Cumberland Regional School District
• Deerfield Township School District
• Downe Township School District
• Fairfield Township School District
• Greenwich Township School District
• Hopewell Township School District
• Lawrence Township School District
• Maurice River Township School District
• Millville Public Charter School
• Millville School District
• Stow Creek Township School District
• Upper Deerfield Township School District
• Vineland Public Charter School
• Vineland Public School District

Essex County

• Achieve Community Charter School
• Belleville Public School District
• Bloomfield Township School District
• Burch Charter School of Excellence
• Caldwell-West School District
• Cedar Grove Township School District
• Discovery Charter School
• East Orange Community Charter School
• East Orange School Distric t
• Essex County Schools of Technology
• Essex Fells School District
• Essex Regional Educational Services Commission
• Fairfield Public School District
• Glen Ridge Public School District
• Gray Charter School
• Great Oaks Legacy Charter School
• Irvington Public School District
• LEAD Charter School
• Link Community Charter School
• Livingston Board of Education School District
• Maria L. Varisco-Rogers Charter School
• Marion P. Thomas Charter School
• Millburn Township School District
• Montclair Public School District
• New Horizons Community Charter School
• Newark Educators Community Charter School
• Newark Public School District
• North Caldwell School District
• North Star Academy Charter School
• Nutley Public School District
• ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District
• Peoples Preparatory Charter School
• Phillip's Academy Charter School
• Pride Academy Charter School District
• Robert Treat Academy Charter School
• Roseland School District
• Roseville Community Charter School
• South Orange-Maplewood School District
• TEAM Academy Charter School
• University Heights Charter School
• Verona Public School District
• West Essex Regional School District
• West Orange Public Schools

Gloucester County

• Clayton Public School District
• Clearview Regional High School District
• Delsea Regional High School District
• Deptford Township Public School District
• East Greenwich Township School District
• Elk Township School District
• Gateway Regional High School District
• Glassboro School District
• Gloucester County Special Services School District
• Gloucester County Vocational-Technical School District
• Harrison Township School District
• Kingsway Regional School District
• Logan Township School District
• Mantua Township School District
• Monroe Township Public School District
• National Park Boro School District
• Paulsboro School District
• Pitman Boro School District
• South Harrison Township School District
• Swedesboro-Woolwich School District
• Township of Franklin School District
• Wenonah Boro School District
• West Deptford Township School District
• Westville Boro Public School District
• Woodbury City Public School District
• Woodbury Heights Public School District

Hudson County

• Bayonne School District
• BelovED Community Charter
• Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School
• East Newark School District
• Elysian Charter School
• Empowerment Academy Charter School
• Guttenberg School District
• Harrison Public Schools
• Hoboken Charter School
• Hoboken Dual Language Charter School
• Hoboken Public School District
• Hudson Arts and Science Charter School
• Hudson County Schools of Technology School District
• Jersey City Community Charter School
• Jersey City Global Charter School
• Jersey City Golden Door Charter School
• Jersey City Public Schools
• North Bergen School District
• Secaucus School District
• Soaring Heights Charter School
• The Learning Community Charter School
• Union City School District
• University Academy Charter High School
• Weehawken Public School District
• West New York School District

Hunterdon County

• Alexandria Township School District
• Bethlehem Township School District
• Bloomsbury Borough School District
• Califon Borough School District
• Clinton Township School District
• Clinton-Glen Gardner School District
• Delaware Township School District
• Delaware Valley Regional High School District
• East Amwell Township School District
• Flemington-Raritan Regional School District
• Franklin Township School District
• Frenchtown Borough School District
• Hampton Borough School District
• High Bridge Borough School District
• Holland Township School District
• Hunterdon Central Regional High School District
• Hunterdon County Educational Services Commission
• Hunterdon County Vocational School District
• Kingwood Township School District
• Lebanon Borough School District
• Lebanon Township School District
• Milford Borough School District
• North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District
• Readington Township School District
• South Hunterdon Regional School District
• Tewksbury Township School District
• Union Township School District

Mercer County

• Achievers Early College Prep Charter School
• Area Vocational Technical School District of Mercer County
• East Windsor Regional School District
• Ewing Township School District
• Foundation Academy Charter School
• Hamilton Township Public School District
• Hopewell Valley Regional School District
• International Charter School of Trenton
• Lawrence Township Public School District
• Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf
• Mercer County Special Services School District
• Pace Charter School of Hamilton
• Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities
• Princeton Charter School
• Princeton Public School District
• Robbinsville Public School District
• The Village Charter School
• Trenton Public School District
• Trenton Stem-to-Civics Charter School
• West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District

Middlesex County

• Academy for Urban Leadership Charter School
• Carteret Public School District
• Cranbury Township School District
• Dunellen Public School District
• East Brunswick Township School District
• Edison Township School District
• Educational Services Commission of New Jersey
• Greater Brunswick Charter School
• Hatikvah International Academy Charter School
• Highland Park Boro School District
• Jamesburg Public School District
• Metuchen Public School District
• Middlesex Borough School District
• Middlesex County STEM Charter School
• Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District
• Milltown School District
• Monroe Township School District
• New Brunswick School District
• North Brunswick Township School District
• Old Bridge Township School District
• Perth Amboy Public School District
• Piscataway Township School District
• Sayreville School District
• South Amboy School District
• South Brunswick School District
• South Plainfield School District
• South River Public School District
• Spotswood Public School District
• Woodbridge Township School District

Monmouth County

• Academy Charter High School
• Allenhurst School District
• Asbury Park School District
• Atlantic Highlands School District
• Avon Boro School District
• Bayshore Jointure Commission School District
• Belmar Elementary School District
• Bradley Beach School District
• Brielle Boro School District
• College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School
• Colts Neck Township School District
• Deal Boro School District
• Eatontown Public School District
• Fair Haven School District
• Farmingdale Public School District
• Freehold Borough School District
• Freehold Regional High School District
• Freehold Township School District
• Hazlet Township Public School District
• Henry Hudson Regional School District
• Highlands Borough School District
• Holmdel Township School District
• Hope Academy Charter School
• Howell Township Public School District
• Interlaken School District
• Keansburg School District
• Keyport School District
• Lake Como School District
• Little Silver Boro School District
• Loch Arbour School District
• LONG BRANCH PUBLIC SCHOOL District
• Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District
• Manasquan School District
• Marlboro Township School District
• Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District
• Middletown Township Public School District
• Millstone Township School District
• Monmouth Beach School District
• Monmouth County Vocational School District
• Monmouth Regional High School
• Monmouth-Ocean Educational Services Commission School Distri
• Neptune City School District
• Neptune Township School District
• Oceanport School District
• Red Bank Borough Public School District
• Red Bank Charter School
• Red Bank Regional School District
• Roosevelt Borough Public School District
• Rumson Borough School District
• Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School District
• Sea Girt Borough School District
• Shore Regional High School District
• Shrewsbury Borough School District
• Spring Lake Borough
• Spring Lake Heights School District
• Tinton Falls School District
• Township of Ocean School District
• Union Beach Public School District
• Upper Freehold Regional School District
• Wall Township Public School District
• West Long Branch School District

Morris County

• Boonton Town Public School District
• Boonton Township School District
• Butler Public School District
• Chester Township School District
• Denville Township K-8 School District
• Dover Public School District
• East Hanover Township School District
• Educational Services Commission of Morris County
• Florham Park School District
• Hanover Park Regional High School District
• Hanover Township School District
• Harding Township School District
• Jefferson Township Public School District
• Kinnelon School District
• Lincoln Park School District
• Long Hill Township School District
• Madison Public School District
• Mendham Borough School District
• Mendham Township School District
• Mine Hill Township School District
• Montville Township School District
• Morris County Vocational School District
• Morris Hills Regional School District
• Morris Plains School District
• Morris School District
• Mount Arlington Public School District
• Mount Olive Township School District
• Mountain Lakes Public School District
• Netcong School District
• Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District
• Pequannock Township School District
• Randolph Township School District
• Riverdale School District
• Rockaway Borough School District
• Rockaway Township School District
• Roxbury Township School District
• School District of the Chathams
• Unity Charter School
• West Morris Regional High School District
• Wharton Borough School District

Ocean County

• Barnegat Township School District
• Bay Head Borough School District
• Beach Haven School District
• Berkeley Township School District
• Brick Township Public School District
• Central Regional School District
• Eagleswood Township School District
• Island Heights School District
• Jackson Township School District
• Lacey Township School District
• Lakehurst School District
• Lakewood Township School District
• Lavallette Borough School District
• Little Egg Harbor Township School District
• Long Beach Island Consolidated School District
• Manchester Township School District
• Ocean Academy Charter School
• Ocean County Vocational Technical School District
• Ocean Gate School District
• Ocean Township School District
• Pinelands Regional School District
• Plumsted Township School District
• Point Pleasant Beach School District
• Point Pleasant Borough School District
• Seaside Heights School District
• Southern Regional School District
• Stafford Township School District
• Toms River Regional School District
• Tuckerton Borough School District

Passaic County

• Bloomingdale School District
• Brilla New Jersey Charter School
• Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton
• Clifton Public School District
• College Achieve Paterson Charter School
• Community Charter School of Paterson
• Haledon Public School District
• Hawthorne Public School District
• John P Holland Charter School School District
• Lakeland Regional High School District
• Little Falls Township Public School District
• North Haledon School District
• Northern Region Educational Services Commission
• Passaic Arts and Science Charter School
• Passaic City School District
• Passaic County Manchester Regional High School District
• Passaic County Technical-Vocational School District
• Passaic Valley Regional High School District
• Paterson Arts and Science Charter School
• Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology
• Paterson Public School District
• Philip's Academy Charter School of Paterson
• Pompton Lakes School District
• Prospect Park Public School District
• Ringwood School District
• Totowa Public School District
• Wanaque School District
• Wayne Township Public School District
• West Milford Township Public School District
• Woodland Park School District

Salem County

• Alloway Twp School District
• Creativity CoLaboratory Charter School
• Elsinboro Township School District
• Mannington Township School District
• Oldmans Township School District
• Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District
• Pennsville School District
• Pittsgrove Township School District
• Quinton Township School District
• Salem City School District
• Salem County Special Services School District
• Salem County Vocational Technical School District
• The Lower Alloways Creek School District
• UPPER PITTSGROVE TWP School District
• Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District

Somerset County

• Bedminster Township Public School District
• Bernards Township School District
• Bound Brook School District
• Branchburg Township School District
• Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District
• Central Jersey College Prep Charter School
• Franklin Township Public School District
• Green Brook Township Public School District
• Hillsborough Township Public School District
• Manville School District
• Montgomery Township School District
• North Plainfield School District
• Somerset County Educational Services Commission School Distr
• Somerset County Vocational and Technical School District
• Somerset Hills Regional School District
• Somerville Public School District
• South Bound Brook Public School District
• Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School
• Warren Township School District
• Watchung Borough School District
• Watchung Hills Regional High School District

Sussex County

• Andover Regional School District
• Byram Township School District
• Frankford Township Consolidated School District
• Franklin Borough School District
• Fredon Township School District
• Green Township School District
• Hamburg School District
• Hampton Township School District
• Hardyston Township School District
• High Point Regional High School District
• Hopatcong Borough School District
• Kittatinny Regional School District
• Lafayette Township School District
• Lenape Valley Regional High School District
• Montague Township School District
• Newton Public School District
• Northern Hills Academy School District
• Ogdensburg Borough School District
• Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District
• Sparta Township Public School District
• Stanhope School District
• Stillwater Township School District
• Sussex County Technical School District
• Sussex County Technology Charter School
• Sussex-Wantage Regional School District
• Vernon Township School District
• Wallkill Valley Regional High School

Union County

• Berkeley Heights School District
• Clark Township Public School District
• College Achieve Central Charter School
• Cranford Public School District
• Cresthaven Academy Charter School
• Elizabeth Public Schools
• Garwood Boro
• Hillside Public School District
• Kenilworth School District
• Linden Public School District
• Morris-Union Jointure Commission School District
• Mountainside School District
• New Providence School District
• Plainfield Public School District
• Rahway Public School District
• Roselle Park Public School District
• Roselle Public School District
• Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District
• Springfield Public School District
• Summit Public School District
• The Barack Obama Green Charter High School District
• The Queen City Academy Charter School District
• Township of Union School District
• Union County Educational Services Commission
• Union County TEAMS Charter School-High School/College LA
• Union County Vocational-Technical School District
• Westfield Public School District
• Winfield Township

Warren County

• Allamuchy Township School District
• Alpha Borough School District
• Belvidere School District
• Blairstown Elementary Township School District
• Frelinghuysen Township School District
• Great Meadows Regional School District
• Hackettstown Public School District
• Harmony Township School District
• Hope Township School District
• Knowlton Township School District
• Lopatcong Township School District
• Mansfield Township Elementary School District
• North Warren Regional School District
• Oxford Township School District
• Phillipsburg School District
• Pohatcong Township School District
• Ridge and Valley Charter School
• Warren County Special Services School District
• Warren County Vocational Technical School
• Warren Glen Academy
• Warren Hills Regional School District
• Washington Borough School District
• White Township Consolidated School District

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State aid plunges, tax hikes capped: Big layoffs might be forced on Jersey Shore schools

• In Lacey, state aid has been slashed by almost two-thirds in the past six years, from almost $21 million to below $7.3 million.
• But school districts are forbidden from raising local property taxes by more than 2% each year.
• As a result, many Jersey Shore schools such as Lacey say they have no choice but to cut jobs and programs, because they can't make up the loss in state aid with local taxes.

Lacey Township Public Schools officials are facing hard questions. Do they wipe out entire programs and cut integral student services to make up a $7 million gap in a school budget?

Lacey schools and a number of neighboring districts — all which have faced years of declining state aid — are now struggling to manage a collective, snowballing financial crisis. Schools in Jackson, Brick, Toms River, Plumsted and elsewhere are debating which of their programs to cut and which to preserve.

In Trenton, legislators are acknowledging the crisis facing these districts and are looking to fix the problems of a school funding system that has directed more state aid to some of New Jersey's fastest-growing urban schools while cutting aid to wealthier suburban districts.

In Lacey, Superintendent Vanessa Pereira and her staff are looking at ways to reduce spending and close the budget gap in a district that serves their more than 3,700 students. Without some emergency intervention from the state, the district will have to cut another 57 jobs before September, stop buying certain office supplies, reduce courtesy busing and eliminate some guidance counseling and special education services.

'Insurmountable': Jackson school officials beg Gov. Murphy for help on $30M budget gap

Who pays? Jersey Shore school leaders say state aid cuts are hurting low-income students

Next school year, "we're talking class sizes in the 40s," the superintendent said. "We are talking about a pay-to-participate (setup) for all athletic programs, the elimination of all co-curricular activities, and the list goes on."

In February, Lacey administrators learned their state aid would decline by $3.2 million for the 2024-25 school year. New Jersey has slashed funding to Lacey schools from nearly $21 million in the 2018-19 school year down to less than $7.3 million. As a result, the district has already cut 141 positions, eliminated freshman sports, cut electives for middle- and high school students, and have put off building maintenance and overdue technology upgrades.

Pereira said the district is running out of costs to cut.

"It just really leaves us (administrators) … sitting here scratching our heads," she said. "What's next? Because cutting an additional $7 million out of my budget is just beyond ridiculous."

Local tax increases can't cover the gap

Because state law limits local tax levy increases to no more than 2% a year, Lacey schools can only raise local taxes by an additional $1 million this year. Despite the plan to raise taxes, the district's operating budget will actually shrink by $535,338, according to its website .

When school leaders questioned the New Jersey Department of Education about the possibility of a loan, they were told that was not an option, Pereira said.

Other schools in the region are facing similar problems. Overall, state aid to districts in Ocean County will decline nearly 6.7% in the 2024-25 school year from the current year. In Monmouth County, state aid will drop about 2.9%.

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"Toms River Regional School district certainly believes that the state school aid formula is fatally flawed for too many districts," Toms River School District Superintendent Michael Citta and Business Administrator Bill Doering said Thursday in a news release. "The formula needs to be significantly revamped and state aid funding losses need to be addressed immediately, before irreparable harm is done to the students these districts are entrusted to educate."

"The state fails to provide the necessary funds to ensure that our district has the necessary resources to meet the needs of our students," Brick Township Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Farrell said in the news release. "Some districts, such as Brick, are simply running out of time. We need to save these districts from falling off the financial cliff."

In Trenton, legislators are acknowledging the problem and putting forward a variety of proposed fixes.

On Thursday, Republican Assembly Leader John DiMaio put submitted a bill ( A-1125 ) that would allow schools to raise taxes over the state mandated 2% levy cap in certain circumstances. In addition, the bill would increase funding to 340 New Jersey school districts, many of which have faced years of state funding cuts.

DiMaio said the plan would cost $1.3 billion and be funded through state income taxes, but would lower property tax bills an average of $874 in its first year. The bill is before the Assembly Education Committee.

Earlier last week, the state Assembly passed a similar bill, A-4161 , which also restores funding to some schools that have faced cuts and allows districts to exceed the tax cap, under particular conditions.

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How capping tax increases failed New Jersey's schools

Back in 2010, New Jersey lawmakers passed a 2% cap on tax levy increases as a way to limit the state's high property taxes. In the years since, this law has hampered the efforts of school districts to keep pace with costs that have exceeded 2% annually: salaries, health insurance costs, transportation, gas, energy and construction costs, to name a few.

At the same time, New Jersey began to change its distribution of state aid away from purportedly wealthier suburban taxpayers toward long underfunded, fast-growing urban districts.

Yet many of these suburban districts found themselves unable to close the resulting holes left in their budgets, because the aid cuts far surpassed what the state tax cap law would allow them to raise from local property taxes.

Allowing school districts discretion to exceed the 2% tax levy cap is necessary to maintain services into the future, said Susan Young, executive director of the New Jersey Association of School Business Officials, an organization that represents the professionals tasked with balancing district budgets each year. Officials had not fully considered the impacts of the 2% tax levy cap when the school funding formula changed in 2018 and significant cuts in state aid began, she said.

"The problem is that when you ran the formula, and it said perhaps that your community should pay 4% more in that year, this (tax cap levy) law came along that said school districts could only raise the tax levy 2%," Young said. "So there are districts that … can never get to where they need to be, because they're restricted by (tax cap) law."

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Then, the pandemic struck. Schools rushed to buy expensive technology for students to learn and stay connected with teachers remotely. When schools eventually reopened and conditions returned to a more normal state, inflation reached decade-high levels. New Jersey's year-over-year inflation rate in March was 3.4%, down from a four-year peak of 6.7% in June 2022, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Yet school administrators are still working under a 2% tax cap law written a decade before the pandemic launched a new era of economic instability.

In January, the Association of School Business Officials prepared a report that recommended, among other things, to reflect the current Consumer Price Index within the state's school funding formula calculations. The report also urged lawmakers to allow districts to exceed the 2% tax levy cap until they raise taxes up to their "local fair share" of their budgets, as defined by the state Department of Education.

"You're expecting schools year after year after year to just survive … at a maximum of a 2% increase," said Young. "That (2% tax levy) cap should have been eliminated a long time ago."

New Jersey real estate compounds the school funding problem

New Jersey's ballooning real estate prices have been a boon for recent sellers, but they have created financial turmoil for school districts trying to balance their budgets. The state aid formula considers property values within a school district's boundaries when determining a community's wealth and its "local fair share" of school funding, or how much local taxpayers should contribute to their schools.

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The sudden rise in home prices since the pandemic has led to unpredictable swings in the funding formula, said Timothy Purnell, executive director of the New Jersey School Boards Association. Because real estate reassessments do not happen yearly, but once every few years, a community that has a lot of new construction or a town-wide property revaluation can suddenly find itself losing large amounts of state aid for schools.

"This year, what we're seeing in particular is … districts unexpectedly seeing funding cuts, or seeing funding cuts that are much larger than what they expected," Purnell said. "Such volatility makes it especially difficult to manage school district budgets."

The School Boards Association is encouraging state leaders to change the school funding formula to take a three-year average of property values, rather than use a one-year snapshot in time. The result would be less volatility in state aid, Purnell said.

"(If) you have your homes reassessed in a particular town, you're really hit hard," he said. "And that may be beyond what you budgeted for."

Purnell also wants to see more aid from the state for school security and transportation. Schools need more transportation assistance than what they are currently receiving, not just to bring students to and from school, but for athletics programs and afterschool activities, he said.

The current funding system has resulted in situations where "you'll see districts cutting freshman sports programs … or extracurricular activities," Purnell said.

"The end result is without some relief from the state, in the form of direct financial tax cap flexibility, or some combination of two (tax cap flexibility and additional state aid), these districts are going to have no other choice but to make really difficult decisions," he said.

Jeff Bennett, a former school board member who runs a New Jersey school funding blog , said the state should move away from using local residents' income as a variable in the school funding formula .

"You're basing a district's tax base on something the board of ed can't tax," said Bennett, who posts about school funding on X, formerly known as Twitter, under the name @StateAidGuy .

Bennett said using residents' income in the formula hurts communities like Trenton and Camden, where the income-to-property value ratio is low, but benefits Jersey Shore communities where expensive summer homes are associated with no income because homeowners live elsewhere. Bennett believes Jersey Shore communities have been underpaying their "fair share" toward their schools for years and have received an advantage by having high property values but lower income communities as a result of vacation rentals, he said.

"Somebody has a million-dollar vacation home in Belmar or Toms River or Brick … who knows where they live?" said Bennett. "They could live in West Orange. They could live in Morristown. They could live in New York. Wherever they live year-round, that's where their income is attached. So towns at the Jersey Shore can have very low local fair shares."

The income factor in the formula also "makes state aid much less predictable, and much more complex," he said.

Bennett said the state should remove the income variable and rely more heavily on property value to determine a community's wealth and ability to pay.

But can New Jersey taxpayers afford to pay more in property taxes just because the value of their homes increased substantially? Housing prices across the state were up 13.7% in March from the previous year, according to the real estate website Redfin.

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"You're looking at an inflated number," said Young, of the New Jersey Association of School Business Officials. "Part of the problem is it (the funding formula) is assuming that if you own a home, that you have the ability to pay. … Just because I could now sell it (a home) for double what it's assessed at, doesn't mean I have any more in my pocket to pay the property taxes."

Without finding some way to send more money to certain schools that have faced millions of dollars in cuts, experts say educators are left with hard choices. Will districts close schools or have classrooms with 40 or more students? Will they eliminate sports or counseling services? Will electives and arts education disappear?

The school funding formula "was done a very, very, very long time ago," said Young. "We're in a different educational environment now. … We need to go back to the drawing board and determine what really are the cost components to educate students? And then how does that flow through the formula?

"We think the bones of it are fairly good," Young said. However, "it's a different world, and we need to take fresh look at it."

Exactly which elements of New Jersey's school funding system will eventually be tweaked or how they will be changed remains unclear. For the time being, schools around the Jersey Shore are urging their residents to contact elected officials to push for immediate relief.

In Lacey, the plea for help is posted on the school website.

"We need decision-makers to understand what this would mean for our district," school administrators wrote in a website popup . "Please partner with us to ask for a solution to save our district."

Legislators say they are listening.

Amanda Oglesby is an Ocean County native who covers education and the environment. She has worked for the Press for more than 15 years. Reach her at @OglesbyAPP, [email protected] or 732-557-5701.