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Follow the public money.
Civic Parent is a fiscal literacy platform focused on public finance in New Jersey.
A Closer Look at Jersey City’s School Tax Rate
A Four-Part CivicParent Series About Jersey City's School Funding Crisis
Part 1: The Public Data
Part 2: Statewide Comparisons & the Role of the Tax Base
Part 3: Let's Talk About the School Tax Levy
Latest Posts:
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A Closer Look at Jersey City’s School Tax Rate, Part 3: A Case for Increasing the School Tax Levy
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Infographic: Jersey City Tax Base, Tax Levies, and Tax Rates-Demystified
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A Closer Look at Jersey City’s School Tax Rate. Part 2: Statewide Comparisons & the Role of the Tax Base
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A Closer Look at Jersey City’s School Tax Rate, Part 1: the Public Data
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PS #5 PTA Fall 2019 Email Campaign: No more “efficiency cuts” – What’s the long-term plan to fund our schools?
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Jersey City Public Schools Funding Crisis – A CivicParent Timeline
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PS #5 Email Campaign #6: JCPS is Not Fully Funded…City Must Help #FundOurSchools
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The Clock is Ticking…What’s the Plan to #FundOurSchools?
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Sharing from NJTV News: Questions over Jersey City teacher layoffs remain (July 4, 2019)
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PS #5 Advocacy Campaign -Jersey City’s school funding crisis is NOT resolved. City Council — #FundOurSchools!!
Featured Topic: Learn About Tax Abatements
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Jersey City: Approximately $40 Million of School Tax is Locked Up in Abatement Contracts
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Updated: Jersey City Abatements from 2016 User Friendly Budget. Mapped by Project Type & Ward.
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Fulop Era Abatements Approved from 2013 to 2016
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Op-Ed Follow-Up: Get the Facts & Figures About Abatements & Public School Funding in Jersey City
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Jersey Journal Op-Ed Highlights PILOT vs. Public Schools Tension in Jersey City
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Mapping Jersey City’s Abatements by Project Type and Ward
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Jersey City PILOTs Rob Funding from the School System
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Mapping Abatements in Jersey City
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Tax Abatements 601: Brighter Sunshine Mandated for NJ Abatements
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Jersey City, We Have A Problem.
Featured Data Visualization:
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Learn at your own pace. Articles are written as knowledge building blocks and include key concepts, infographics, and links to additional resources.
NJ Public Schools
Learn the basics about school funding in NJ. Access public school data, analysis, and insight using customizable Tableau views. Dig into details about Jersey City's Public Schools funding crisis.
Learn moreProperty Taxes
Property tax basics, property revaluation, tax abatements, and more. Dig into property tax for your county and town. Learn ways to advocate for tax fairness.
Learn moreTax Abatements
Learn the basics about tax abatements: what they are, how they are granted, and the impact on the tax base, the public schools, and the funding paradigm for the local community.
Learn moreProperty Revaluation
Learn about property revaluation, including: the who/what/when/where/why of revaluation, how to compute if you are under or over taxed, and how to determine if your town or city is due for a revaluation.
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Give #OpenData a Try
Tax data is rich "open data" available to the public.
We can learn much about community through the lens of taxes.
Use the Tableau visualization below to find your hometown's tax base value. Compare your town with others throughout your county and the state, to see how your town's taxable wealth measures up. The tax base values are published each year by the State Division of NJ. The tax base is a foundational concept to the topic of property taxes.
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Civic Parent Library - Take a Tour
Read about school funding, tax abatements, property revaluation, and more.
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Jersey City Revaluation: Intro from ASI Inc, the firm doing the Revaluation
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Jersey City 2017 Sales for Class “2” (1-4 Family) Properties, Mapped
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Property Revaluation 301: Estimating Your Post-Revaluation Tax Bill
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Tax Abatements 101: A Basic Overview
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City Council Can Allocate Surplus Funds to the Public Schools.
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Making Sense of Your New Tax Post Card
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2019/20 *Proposed* Advertised Appropriations (JCPS Spending for 2019/20 School Year)
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Why Property Revaluation is a Social Justice Imperative in Jersey City
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Jersey City Property Tax Appeals: A Civic Step-by-Step Overview
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NJ School Funding Basics: “Adequacy” Budget, School Tax Levy, & the Impact of Inflation (A Case Study of Jersey City)
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Property Revaluation 501: Mapping & Color Coding Jersey City Home Sales by Assessment-Sales Ratio
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Quick Analysis: Tax Expense Change on the West Side, south of Lincoln Park
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Property Revaluation Update: 202 out of 206 Homes on Neptune Ave in Greenville #JerseyCity were Over-Taxed.
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JerseyCity Revaluation Update: Society Hill Highlighted
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Mapping Jersey City’s Abatements by Project Type and Ward
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Jersey City: Who in City Council & the NJ State Legislature Represents Your School?
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Jersey City 2017 Sales for Class “2” (1-4 Family) Properties, Mapped
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Fulop Era Abatements Approved from 2013 to 2016
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Country Village Revaluation Update: $3+ Million Estimated Tax Expense Reduction (and counting…)
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Mapping Abatements in Jersey City
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Jersey City Public Schools Funding Crisis – A CivicParent Timeline
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Jersey City: Who in City Council & the NJ State Legislature Represents Your School?
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Let’s Get Civic
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JCPS Funding: Why Possible State Aid Cuts = “Major Hardship”
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JCPS 2-Volume Demographic Study (Published in 2014)
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Civic Questions for the Board of Education Upon Passing of their 2019/20 Budget
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Taxpayer Guide to Education Spending – Total Spending Per Pupil (#OpenData Visualization)
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NJ Special Education Statistics | #DataViz #OpenData
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JCPS Funding: How JCPS Spends Its Money…A High Level Primer
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Jersey Journal Op-Ed: No Way to Run a World Class School District
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2019/20 *Proposed* Advertised Appropriations (JCPS Spending for 2019/20 School Year)
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PS #5 Advocacy Campaign -Jersey City’s school funding crisis is NOT resolved. City Council — #FundOurSchools!!
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JCPS Funding Crisis: An Overview
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“Jersey City Public Schools are *Structurally* Underfunded”…What does this mean?
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A Concerned Parent Addresses City Council re: Classroom Shortage in Jersey City
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June 26th: Tell the Jersey City City Council to #FundOurSchools
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Accountability Checkpoint: Parent FAQs for May 13th BOE Meeting to Finalize the Budget
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Jersey Journal Op-Ed Highlights PILOT vs. Public Schools Tension in Jersey City
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JCPS Funding: How JCPS Spends Its Money…A High Level Primer
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NJ School Funding Basics: The Tax Base
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Op-Ed Follow-Up: Get the Facts & Figures About Abatements & Public School Funding in Jersey City
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Jersey Journal Op-Ed Highlights PILOT vs. Public Schools Tension in Jersey City
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Let’s Get Civic
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Mapping Abatements in Jersey City
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Tax Abatements 101: A Basic Overview
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Jersey City: Approximately $40 Million of School Tax is Locked Up in Abatement Contracts
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Jersey City, We Have A Problem.
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Tax Abatements 601: Brighter Sunshine Mandated for NJ Abatements
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Tax Abatements 301: Two Sides of the Same PILOT
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Mapping Jersey City’s Abatements by Project Type and Ward
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Why Property Revaluation is a Social Justice Imperative in Jersey City
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An Analysis of 2015 Jersey City Property Sales – by Ward
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Jersey City 2017 Sales for Class “2” (1-4 Family) Properties, Mapped
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Jersey City Revaluation: Interactive Map Now Available from ASI, Inc.
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Property Revaluation 501: Mapping & Color Coding Jersey City Home Sales by Assessment-Sales Ratio
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Property Tax Revaluation: Will my property tax expense go up or down? (YouTube Video)
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Property Revaluation 201: Quantifying Tax Inequity (A Simple Example)
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Fulop’s Spokesperson Wrong on Property Tax Appeals Logic
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Jersey City Together Helped Homeowners Save $40,000+ via Tax Appeal Workshops
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Jersey City Property Tax Appeals: A Civic Step-by-Step Overview