Responding to a court request for her to decide if Lakewood public schools are funded fairly, the head of New Jersey’s education department said she would expedite a study of the district.
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These N.J. kids aren’t getting a fair education, judge rules. But fix still isn’t clear.
Updated May 06, 2021;
Posted May 06, 2021
The cost of busing private and public school students while only providing state aid based on public school enrollment is at the root of Lakewood s perennial school funding problems. A judge has ruled that the district s public school students do not receive a thorough and efficient education, though she declined to declare the funding formula unconstitutional.SL
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A protracted legal battle to fix a perennial school funding imbalance unique to Lakewood has yielded what some see as a potential victory. An administrative law judge’s ruled that the district’s overwhelmingly poor, largely Hispanic public school students are not being provided the thorough and efficient education that is the right of every child in New Jersey under the state constitution.