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Cherry Hill board adopts resolution urging state to fix school funding formula
Summary
The Cherry Hill Board of Education voted to adopt a resolution calling on New Jersey lawmakers to revisit the state school-funding formula, citing decades of underfunding, an operating budget largely supported by local property taxes and the district's recent bond referendum.
The Cherry Hill Board of Education voted to adopt a resolution calling on New Jersey lawmakers and the governor to revisit the state school-funding formula and fulfill what the board described as the state’s constitutional obligation to provide “a thorough and efficient” education.
The resolution (agenda item 23.3), moved by Board Member Miss Palmer and seconded by Miss Sherpane, passed by a roll call vote during the March meeting. Board leaders said the measure is intended as a concise, legislative-style document to “tell our story” about long-term underfunding and its local effects, and Secretary Schimpf was directed to transmit the adopted resolution to legislative and executive leaders in Trenton.
Why it matters: board members said the district’s…
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