Superintendent proposes whopping $827.4 million Jersey City school budget, with $1,168 tax increase for homeowners
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
Posted Mar 16, 2021
Schools Superintendent Franklin Walker
Vision To Learn and Helen Keller International presents free glasses to 114 K Ð 8th grade students at Frank R. Conwell Elementary and Middle schools in Jersey City on Friday, March 29, 2019. The program is funded by Overdeck Family Foundation. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal
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The timing could not be worse, not that there’s ever a good time for an $1,100 tax increase.
Jersey City Superintendent of Schools Franklin Walker presented an $827.4 million budget for the 2021-22 school year to Board of Education members Monday night, a 9% increase over last year. The enormous budget carries a $1,168 tax increase for average property owners, double the tax increase placed upon homeowners last year.
Elected BOE president at 23, Mussab Ali continues to makes history in Jersey City
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Posted Jan 06, 2021
Mussab Ali, 23, has been elected president of the Jersey City School Board. He was photographed at Dickinson High School on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)
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Four years ago, Mussab Ali won a historic race.
Twenty years old at the time, Ali won a seat on the Jersey City Board of Education by 68 votes in 2017 election, becoming both the first Muslim elected to public office in Jersey City and the youngest elected official in the city’s history.
On Tuesday night, the now 23-year-old Ali was elected school board president. He is thought to be the youngest BOE president in the city’s history.