Post by admin on Jul 12, 2007 5:41:29 GMT -5
Beck helped school district
Regarding the story crediting Sen. Ellen Karcher and Assemblyman Michael Panter, both D-Monmouth, and Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck, R-Monmouth, for getting additional state aid to Freehold Borough schools, Beck is the one who drove this process. ("Freehold likely to receive additional state aid," June 14.)
While Abbott district funding has steadily increased, Freehold and similar districts have been flat-funded over the last few years.
Three times in a row, Karcher voted for budgets that flat-funded my schools. Now, in an election year, she is suddenly concerned with the district lacking state aid. Her support of state pilot program-produced funding for the Trenton school district, a well-funded Abbott district, is troubling. Karcher's vote for more than $4 million to New Brunswick schools, another well-funded Abbott district, is unsatisfactory.
Karcher, without a rational foundation, shamelessly sloughs off state responsibility for Freehold underfunding to Monmouth County and our freeholders.
Beck has been highly industrious, arranging meetings between parents and school board members with both Assembly and Senate leadership, enabling legislators to recognize Freehold's funding plight. Her effort is nonpartisan government at its finest. We must have more of this ethic in Trenton.
We are not a large voting bloc, yet Beck embraced our dilemma with extraordinary dynamism. I praise her for laboring on behalf of the children of Freehold. We will remember this in November.
Ted Miller
Freehold Borough
Regarding the story crediting Sen. Ellen Karcher and Assemblyman Michael Panter, both D-Monmouth, and Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck, R-Monmouth, for getting additional state aid to Freehold Borough schools, Beck is the one who drove this process. ("Freehold likely to receive additional state aid," June 14.)
While Abbott district funding has steadily increased, Freehold and similar districts have been flat-funded over the last few years.
Three times in a row, Karcher voted for budgets that flat-funded my schools. Now, in an election year, she is suddenly concerned with the district lacking state aid. Her support of state pilot program-produced funding for the Trenton school district, a well-funded Abbott district, is troubling. Karcher's vote for more than $4 million to New Brunswick schools, another well-funded Abbott district, is unsatisfactory.
Karcher, without a rational foundation, shamelessly sloughs off state responsibility for Freehold underfunding to Monmouth County and our freeholders.
Beck has been highly industrious, arranging meetings between parents and school board members with both Assembly and Senate leadership, enabling legislators to recognize Freehold's funding plight. Her effort is nonpartisan government at its finest. We must have more of this ethic in Trenton.
We are not a large voting bloc, yet Beck embraced our dilemma with extraordinary dynamism. I praise her for laboring on behalf of the children of Freehold. We will remember this in November.
Ted Miller
Freehold Borough
