Advocates, school officials largely united on funding reforms • New Jersey Monitor

A bevy of education advocates and school officials told New Jersey lawmakers exploring a rework of the state’s school funding formula that reforms should roll more education costs into formulaic aid, defray the effect of stark shifts in property valuations, and allow towns to more quickly meet their share of education funding. The witnesses invited to testify before the Senate Education Committee Thursday presented a largely unanimous view of what must change to bring stability to school districts that have experienced extraordinarily volatile state aid fueled by inflation and an...