NJPSA & Other Ed Stakeholders Testify Before Assembly Budget Committee on Cap Compromise
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July 7, 2010
NJPSA, in addition to New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), School Board’s Association (NJSBA), Garden State Coalition of Schools (GSC), and New Jersey Council of County Vocational and Technical Schools testified before the Assembly Budget Committee July 7 on the recently negotiated cap compromise (Governor & Senate President Reach Cap Compromise July 3, July 3).
The group advocated for:
- Special Education. The 2% tax cap as it is currently written has no waver for rising special education costs in local districts, so parents of students with special needs should prepare for fights with districts over the services their children need.
- Energy. The cap compromise does not address extraordinary increases in energy costs.
- Reductions in State Aid. School districts have had to make drastic cuts as state aid has been cut on short notice. This tax cap will not allow local communities to make up for unpredictable state funding.
- Inflation. This cap contains no exception for inflation, including the cost of fuel, textbooks or supplies. As school budgets, which have already been slashed this year, are stretched tighter, deeper cuts in staff and even larger class sizes are inevitable. Parents should prepare to see extracurricular programs eliminated and higher fees imposed on previously affordable activities.