Sen. Michael Testa (R) – NJ, 1st Legislative District, joins Steve Adubato to discuss the school funding formula and curriculum, civil discourse, and election integrity. Recorded 4/12/23

Steve Adubato has an in-depth discussion with Sen. Testa about the school funding formula and how it relates to rural districts. Testa says, “I’ll use Weymouth as an example, who continues to get cut. There’s an actual legitimate school safety issue there; they were cut about $400,000 last year, they continue to get cut again this year. With Weymouth, you walk directly into this school; they want a security measure that has a vestibule to protect school students. I think that everybody would agree on that. And then you have a school district like Wildwood, that got cut in the seven figures. They can’t possibly be able to budget to have that level of a cut each and every year and have their budget just be so up and down; it’s wholly unfair. We need to do better than that. Yet somehow, in the budget, there is room for a $12 million French Museum in Jersey City.”