Under Gov. Christie budget proposal North Bergen schools would receive $57,000,000

Gov. Chris Christie has proposed spending more than $13 billion in funding, including $548 million in new spending in his 2017 budget proposal. The proposal increases school spending by about 4 percent and every district would get an increase in funding from the previous year.

Under the proposed amounts, North Bergen would recieve $56,603,083 for 2015-2016 & 57,095,133 2016-2017. This would be an increase of 2.2% over the last five years.

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