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Cherry Hill board credits residentsfor opening fair-funding talks in Trenton, urges sustained advocacy
Summary
Board leaders said community calls and emails prompted productive meetings in Trenton and urged residents to keep pushing for a fairer state education funding formula for South Jersey districts; board members announced upcoming Trenton engagements with legislators and the state education commissioner.
The Cherry Hill Board of Education on Tuesday credited residentsfor prompting a productive round of talks in Trenton about New Jersey's school funding formula and urged continued, targeted advocacy as the legislature reviews budget figures.
Board chair Miss Winters said that after the district's budget meeting drew nearly 500 participants, residents inundated the offices of Majority Leader Speaker Greenwald, Senator Beach and Assemblywoman Cain with calls and emails. "When I went into the meeting at the majority leader's office the first thing they said was we heard…
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