Sweeney slams Murphy on school funding
The latest fight between state government’s most powerful Democrats is over education funding, with Senate President Steve Sweeney accusing Gov. Phil Murphy of playing politics over what he called a $1 billion tax hike that doesn’t help local school districts.
“It is disappointing to see the Governor demagogue the critical issues of school funding and property tax fairness in order to call for an unrelated $1 billion increase in the sales tax and the millionaire’s tax,” said Sweeney.
Sweeney said it was inexcusable that Murphy refused to acknowledge his plan “wouldn’t put a penny into over-funded districts under the school funding bill he signed into law 15 months ago.”
“Any increase in state funding for schools would go to the overwhelming majority of school districts that are underfunded by more than $1.7 billion, not to the Adjustment Aid districts that would be helped by my plan for cap relief,” Sweeney said.
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