The Board of Education meeting will be held tonight, Tuesday, December 20th at 7:00 pm in the school library. This is the link to the agenda for the meeting.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Board of Education Meeting tonight, 12/20 at 7:00 pm in School Library
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Why do the taxpayers of Mullica have to pay for transportation of 13 students who go to private religious schools?
$884 each, St. Joseph's (7) and Pilgrim Academy (6) for a total of $11,492.
Sending children to a private school is a parental choice and should not involve public money in my opinion.
My guess is that's what it costs the taxpayers per pupil to bus students to the Mullica schools. I believe that the public school system is required by law to pay for such transportation. It's a bargain really; if they went to Mullica schools, the taxpayers would also have to pay for everything else too so count your blessings.
I would like to thank all of the parents that choose to send their children to private schools because it lowers the tax burden on the people of Mullica Township.
The $11,500 cost saving projection you list would turn into about $130,000 additional costs to Mullica Township taxpayers if we encourage them to leave private schools.
The law?
Is that amount deducted from the cost of the transportation of Mullica students?
The school gets money from the state per pupil who attend Mullica School, not by how many that ride the bus. There is no "bargain" to Mullica residents by busing students to other schools. The school has a bus contract also, not by how many ride the bus. I'm sure it's the law, however, the taxpayers save very little money when a parent sends their child to a private school.
The law is N.J.S.A. 18A:39-1.
$884 is the maximum that a school board has to pay this school year to transport a child to a non-public school that is no more than 20 miles away.
Mullica taxpayers pay much more to bus and educate a student in the public school system than the $884 they have pay for busing a non-public school student in their district. If the student attends a private school more than 20 miles away, as some do, the school board pays nothing toward their education. The savings in taxes are significant, despite what a previous blogger alleges. The parents who pay to send their children to private schools also pay for others to attend public school, so they pay double, if not more, with very little personal financial benefit, if any.
RE: "There is no 'bargain' to Mullica residents by busing students to other schools."
Really? If the residents only had to pay for busing, their property tax bills would plummet.
This is reimbursement to parents from the state for transporting their child(ren) to private school. The state money, after application approval, is funneled from the state through the local public school.
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