Dear NJEA Member/Friend of Education:

April 2006

The Phillipsburg Education Association is asking you to get out and vote in favor of your local school budget on Tuesday, April 18. The chart below shows how local school budgets have fared over the past three years.

*
2003
2004
2005
3 Year
Pass. %

Y
N
Diff
Y
N
Diff
Y
N
Diff
Alpha
70
82
-12
57
42
15
51
41
10
2/3 = 67%
Bloomsbury
54
135
-81
80
49
31
69
33
36
2/3 = 67%
Greenwich
232
221
11
173
102
71
189
187
2
3/3 = 100%
Harmony
99
48
51
85
47
38
90
37
53
3/3 = 100%
Lopatcong
506
273
233
241
249
-8
426
245
181
2/3 = 67%
Phillipsburg
247
210
37
307
241
66
262
151
111
3/3 = 100%
Pohatcong
136
112
24
133
121
12
109
86
23
3/3 = 100%
Total # Voters
2,425

 
1,927

 
1,976

 

 
Passing % - P’burg districts
5/7 = 71%

 

 
6/7 = 86%

 

 
7/7 = 100%

 
Passing % - Warren County
70%

 

 
70%

 

 
70%

 
Passing % - New Jersey
62%

 

 
70%

 

 
71%

 
* Source: NJEA Research Department

For the first time since 2000, all seven local school districts passed their school budgets! The three year passage rates noted above in the table are the highest they have been since 1999-2001 when four districts had 100% passage rate and the other three had 67%. NJEA members can take pride in being part of the successful passages of these seven school budgets. Especially since we know better than most the consequences of not passing school budgets: defeated school budgets result in a loss of programs for students and jobs for staff.

If every one of the over 700 NJEA members living in the Phillipsburg area, along with their families and friends, vote in favor of the local school budgets on April 18, every budget will pass again. If you are not certain where to vote, polling locations, addresses and times can be found on the back of this letter. Results of the votes will be available on Wednesday, April 19, at http://www.pburgea.org.

Respectfully,

Charles Nowalk, chairperson
PEA ad hoc School Budgets Committee
pburgea@hotmail.com

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