1. I’m sorry for the teachers problems but my taxes are high enough already let the state take over already. I along with many others are so fed up with the Lakewood school situation already enough is enough .

2. Very well said. Thanx Ms Winters. What’s shocking is that this problem with the state formula has been made to the State Government so many times, on so many different levels and still, nothing has changed. So, if the state gives funding based on 6,000 students and we have 30,000 students, clearly we’re gonna have a problem. That the state can’t realize this and ammend it, is, to say the least, sobering. I think they should give the $10,000,000.00 as a gift & not ask for it back.

   • Command, It’s 30,000 Non-Public and 6,000 Public school students, for a total of 36,000 students, of which the state is only paying for 6,000. If the deficit is truly $15K, why didn’t Laura ask for that???

3. While I feel bad for the teachers, I don’t feel bad enough to have my taxes raised again. I think it’s insane that we pay more and more each year for a service we don’t use.

   • It’s called the common good. Sorry for the teachers!??? You have no empathy for children and their education.

4. Why isn’t anyone at the state level willing to help fix the funding formula?
   Politicians generally act in ways that will bring them the most votes. If a politician at the state level would fix the funding formula, that politician would receive most Lakewood votes. Which votes would that politician lose?

5. We need to vote someone in that will take this issue in hand and make the needed changes.

6. Golous!!

7. I hate having to say this again but we need a ONE TIME, 10% assessment to get us over the hurdle, true I am not a property tax payer, but doesn’t take away from my rights nor should the children suffer even if their parents happen to be in an undocumented status, remember NJs 2 senators support making the rights of the presently undocumented legalized.

   • A one time $1700- per child who is using the public school fee? That will bring in the $10 million needed and is alot less than private school tuition.

   • Being a property tax payer should absolutely take away from your rights –
     who are you to have any say in how OTHER peoples money is spent?

     And I guarantee you, if you were paying taxes you’d be singing a different tune.

   • How about if they are going to agree that illegal citizens deserve school funding, they should also agree that legal citizens in non-public deserve funding as well.

8. An advance in state aid is a loan, they are asking for a loan. To be paid back by whom?

   What about next year and the year after?

9. What is the reason the 30k students in private schools don’t enroll in public? Wouldn’t the state legally need to fund? I’m sure that would cost a lot more than 10 million.

10. The State needs to give it as a Grant.

11. To how about

    That’s not how it works. Every child is entitled to a free public school education. Most families in Lakewood public school district could not afford to fork out 1700 let alone if they had 4 kids and it would be 7200

    Look we all know the problem is the funding formula. We can throw blame at whomever we want, but ultimately unless the state works out a permanent solution for Lakewood, this problem will only continue to grow.

12. I wrote a motion for emergency relief last night but it is no longer nogeah.

    Lakewood is paying $94 million in local taxes 2018 even though the SFRA (state law) requires only $84 million for the Lakewood’s local share of adequacy.

    The state is required to pay $25 million but only pays $15 million for its share of adequacy (equalization aid).

    Pending outcome of the merits, the state should be required to pay its share of the present law to ensure T & E.

13. I wrote a motion for emergency relief last night but it is no longer nogeah.

    Lakewood taxpayers are paying $94 million in local taxes 2018 even though the SFRA (state law) requires only $84 million for the local share of adequacy in Lakewood.

    The state is required to pay $25 million but only pays $15 million for its share of adequacy (equalization aid) in Lakewood.

    Pending outcome of the merits, the state should be required to pay its share of the present law to ensure T & E.

14. I’m sorry to say this folks, but wishing for the state to change the funding formula is like beating a dead horse. Everyone knows and has known for quite some time what the issue is, and if they really wanted to fix it, they already would have done so. Unless we elect politicians into Trenton that have spine, nothing is going to change.

15. Johnson well said. When the politicians fell the heat they will change the formula.

16. School Teacher , you are correct, so why are we bailing out the state by asking for a loan, let the State feel the heat.

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