tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post946715094699373910..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: Steven Fulop Needs an Education About Charter SchoolsDukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-54521654675183973372015-04-28T13:19:04.284-07:002015-04-28T13:19:04.284-07:00Fulop goes after the Port Authority for allegely p...Fulop goes after the Port Authority for allegely paying less than its share of taxes, but Fulop is a-ok that Jersey City residents pay less than their share of taxes for their own schools.<br /><br />http://www.senatenj.com/index.php/doherty/doherty-jersey-citys-hypocrisy-on-property-taxes/15961<br /><br />Jersey City still has high levels of poverty, but it also has $18.7 billion in (Equalized) valuation, the most in NJ. JC should get an above average amount of aid, but it should not get ~$14,000 per student when poorer non-Abbotts get nowhere near that amount. <br /><br /><b>JC taxpayers can afford to pay more than a 0.5878 school tax rate! Jersey City's state aid needs to be redistributed to needier districts</b><br /> <br />JC's residents Jersey City, Hoboken, and Asbury Park are the poster children for everything wrong with NJ school aid. <br /><br />StateAidGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00346914457455404884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-786814945207965042015-04-28T13:05:56.569-07:002015-04-28T13:05:56.569-07:00Jersey City represents everything that's wrong...Jersey City represents everything that's wrong with NJ state aid.<br /><br />Jersey City alone gets one-fifth of all Adjustment Aid. Jersey City's $114 million in Adjustment Aid, which is aid that it receives over and above what SFRA recommends, is greater than what all of the non-Abbotts in Essex County get. It is four times more aid than Belleville gets, one of NJ's many Abbott victims. <br /><br />It is absurd that Jersey City investment bankers get two years of "free" Pre-K paid for by state taxpayers, while children growing up in poverty in most non-Abbotts get nothing. Has Fulop ever called for means-testing of Pre-K so that low-income children in places other than Jersey City can benefit?<br /><br />Jersey City is also one of the biggest abusers of PILOTs. Since Jersey City's aid is so high and its school tax rate is so low, for Jersey City to PILOT new developments is cost-free for them, since state taxpayers pay for the educations of Jersey City children anyway. <br /><br />http://www.nj.gov/comptroller/news/docs/tax_abatement_report.pdf<br /><br />Jersey City's position of state funding privilege predates Steve Fulop's becoming mayor, but Fulup accepts it. I would never trust him to do the right thing by NJ's severely underaided districts as governor of NJ.StateAidGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00346914457455404884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-27678789888670563712015-04-26T17:31:09.127-07:002015-04-26T17:31:09.127-07:00Just what we don't need, another pro charter c...Just what we don't need, another pro charter cheerleader governor who bashes, demonizes and demeans the actual REAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The REAL public schools must accept all the children coming through the door throughout the whole year. That's a big difference from the fake public schools (charter schools). Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-54388268033692939062015-04-26T10:32:13.130-07:002015-04-26T10:32:13.130-07:00Steven Fulop knows that Jersey City has some very ...Steven Fulop knows that Jersey City has some very segregated charter schools. I sent the demographic data to him a year ago, after he was asked about charter schools during an appearance in Princeton. He does not seem interested in addressing the segregation problem, but the questions are not going to stop and anyone who wants to be Governor cannot afford to ignore this problem.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04094617130774541174noreply@blogger.com