This is a quick primer on why the Sweeney-Prieto proposal (in the NJ state legislature) to cut $8.5 million in state aid from Jersey City Public Schools would, to use Superintendent Dr. Lyles term, cause a “major hardship” for the district. The proposed cuts are for state’s coming fiscal year (July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018). Read the 2017 story here and a March 2022 post-script on state aid cuts here.
