Thanks to Charles for finding the following website. It includes detailed information on a sample of New Jersey school districts (with information like per-pupil spending and student:teacher ratio), and has overall budget numbers for all districts in the back. Mercer County is on p. 248.
http://www.nj.gov/education/guide/2008/k-12.pdf
And maybe in class on Sunday, some of y'all with more NJ experience than I have can explain how public schools charge tuition. That's listed as a revenue source (and a pretty substantial one for some of the districts). I'm not familiar with that practice at all.
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Amy,
ReplyDeleteI suspect that the tuition payments occur when one district sends some of their students to another district. I think that this happens when one district has excess capacity and another is short on space. I remember hearing that our district had students from another district until that district could finish a new school. Someone with more direct knowledge of the school funding intracacies may be able to give a better answer.
Ed