Unbelievable Claims at the Hoboken Board of Education: $33,056 per Student, a 10% School Tax Increase During a Pandemic, and the Hoboken Board of Education Claims the City Council is "Defunding" the Hoboken Public Schools

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In October of 2020, on the heels of a 10% tax increase in the Public School Budget, the Hoboken Board of Education claimed that the Hoboken City Council was threatening to "defund" the Hoboken Public Schools by considering dispersing roughly $250,000 of PILOT payments to charter as well as traditional pubic schools in Hoboken. 

It is difficult to fully comprehend the absurdity of such a statement. Here is a national chart produced by NPR about school funding. 

At $33,056 per student, the Hoboken Public Schools are clearly an extreme outlier on a state and national level. 

To be clear, it was the members of the Hoboken Board of Education--- trustees of the State of New Jersey--- who made a claim of "defunding"-- a word popularized over the summer of 2020 during the very contentious "Defund the Police" protests. 

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." Winston Churchill.

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