Food for thought in between your grapefruit and cornflakes:
- 5.24% – the percentage (on average) that New Jersey property taxes have increased on an annual basis since 2002.
13% – the percentage of New Jersey school districts that held public budgets votes on Tuesday, or 70 individual districts.
- 15% – the percentage of New Jersey voters who typically bother to vote in school board/budget elections.
- 90% – the percentage of school districts that held public budget votes on Tuesday and secured passage for their respective budgets. In fact, only seven total budgets went down in flames this April. Just shy of 80% passed in 2011; only 40% won passage in 2010.
- 100% – the percentage of property taxpayers in those 70 towns who will complain about “how high” their property taxes have risen in the past year.
Our children’s futures (educationally and financially) are quite literally on the ballot every time school budgets take center stage, Save Jerseyans.
You’d think folks would take a little more interest in the outcome?
Wake up, New Jersey! You can't complain if you don't exercise the right to vote.
If you live in a non-Abbott dist ,I can see the apathy towards voting for school budgets ..It's a lose -lose vote .most towns are paying for there own schools and other urban districts schools budgets ,but have no say on Abbotts spending (case in point AP's quandary on what color to make the football field astroturf ! )…so why bother .If you vote your school budget down you still only see pennies of school aid so property taxes go up anyway …..I don't even bother myself .
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