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Gov. Phil Murphy delivers his pre-taped budget message.
It’s become a perennial education photo-op in New Jersey.
Two days after the governor presents a state budget to the Legislature, the administration by law must release how state aid will break down for public school districts in what is the single biggest slice of that spending plan.
As part of the pageantry associated with that much-anticipated release, a gubernatorial visit is paid to a local district that is among the biggest winners.
On Thursday, it was a Fair Lawn middle school chosen for the stop, as Gov. Phil Murphy took to the road to sell his $45 billion budget plan, which includes more than $600 million in additional funding for public schools.
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File photo: Sept. 25, 2020 at Red Bank Middle School
With everything else going on, New Jersey’s public schools are also about to enter a most-unusual budget season for the next school year, with a range of questions looming, both familiar and not.
A fundamental question facing them like never before, of course, is what will schooling even look like whenever New Jersey comes out of the pandemic.
But as local districts draft their budgets for 2021-2022, more familiar questions are arising over what share the state will bear of both existing costs and extraordinary ones.