tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041287977169808397.post6146920153839209084..comments2024-03-28T23:52:50.698-04:00Comments on Mother Crusader: Expansiongate?Mother Crusaderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05282456501033994143noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041287977169808397.post-12644714963715438712014-06-12T07:38:59.486-04:002014-06-12T07:38:59.486-04:00Taxes are not low in Hoboken or anywhere in NJ. W...Taxes are not low in Hoboken or anywhere in NJ. We shouldn't have taxes raised to fund elite private schools for the few. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041287977169808397.post-31222892099120790392014-03-11T09:10:41.491-04:002014-03-11T09:10:41.491-04:00Schools shouldn't have to work so hard on prom...Schools shouldn't have to work so hard on promoting themselves, but in Hoboken's climate of schools competing, the public schools need a PR machine to broadcast the amazing things going on there, like all the brilliant, highly educated teachers, and for those focused on scores - how many advanced proficient testers there are. (my daughter's small public school fifth grade class had 3 kids get perfect scores on the Math NJ Ask last year)edazarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04822573760641355544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041287977169808397.post-31166935134574156142014-03-10T16:43:27.230-04:002014-03-10T16:43:27.230-04:00One reason much easier for politicians in Hoboken ...One reason much easier for politicians in Hoboken to support a charter is that Hoboken's tax rate is extremely low. For Hoboken to have to raise taxes to make up for the inefficiency of multiple school bureaucracies is not going to be onerous like it is elsewhere.<br /><br />Hoboken has over $4 million in valuation per student, the highest of any large district in New Jersey and more than double the valuation of Princeton, Millburn, and Paramus. Hoboken also gets a huge amount of state aid (400% of what SFRA recommends) and is the most over aided large district in New Jersey. <br /><br />As a consequence of that immense valuation and immense aid stream Hoboken's tax rate is only 0.3915. That means that the owner of a $1 million property would pay less than $4000 a year in school taxes even though Hoboken's school spending is over $21,000 a year per student. <br /><br />The bottom line is that people in Hoboken have it good. Very good. It's no wonder they can afford things that the rest of us can't. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041287977169808397.post-58759319035204038222014-03-09T16:54:11.974-04:002014-03-09T16:54:11.974-04:00Excellent report! Great research, and great use of...Excellent report! Great research, and great use of the Seinfeld gif!<br /><br />It seems like a dual-language Spanish-English school would be a particularly easy sell to low-income Hispanic families and recent Hispanic immigrants, which makes Barbara Martinez's claims of outreach to low-income families all the harder to believe. <br /><br />Clearly HoLa has a sophisticated PR machine that they use very skillfully and aggressively to gain political support. If HoLa put a small percentage of that effort into recruiting low-income students, doubtless HoLa's low-income enrollment would be much higher than the paltry 11%, which is outrageously out of sync with the public school low-income rate of 72%.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com