State Aid for Schools

The Supreme Court decision showed that urgency, collaboration, equity, and cooperation are considered by the High Court as fundamental to redressing the lack of opportunities for education for disadvantaged children in New Jersey, and should form the basis for any school-funding system. The Court’s decision in Abbott V included:

Whole school reform, full-day kindergarten and preschool for all 3 and 4 year olds; and a comprehensive state managed and funded facilities program to correct code violations, to eliminate overcrowding, and to provide adequate space for all educational programs in the Abbott schools. Other supplemental programs are also required such as health and social services, school-to-work programs, after-school and summer school programs.

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ion devised a new plan for making major alterations to the school-funding formula. Among the changes, it “shifted the state’s strategy to one of guaranteeing minimum spending and achievement of Core Curriculum Standards for all students” (History, 2000, 2). The standards-based approach to financing was made official in 1996, when the Governor signed into law the Comprehensive Education Improvement and Financing Act (CEIFA). Still, in 1997, the ELC filed a lawsuit for the third time arguing that CEIFA failed to meet the requirements of the rulings outline in Abbott in 1990 and 1994. The Supreme Court ruled CEIFA unconstitutional in 1997 and orders state officials “to immediately increase funding for poor urban schools to parity with suburban schools” (History, 2000, 2). This resulted in the state allotting $246 million to the Abbott districts (History, 2000, 2). By 1998, the Supreme Court mandated that the state spend an additional $312 million annually on additional programs for urban districts and $2.7 billion earmarked for school facilities (History, 2000, 2). Abbott v. Burke: Status Because of the Supreme Court’s Abbott V decision, New Jersey’s public school students now have the most comprehensive set of educational r
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