Sequestration to Reduce Manalapan-Englishtown Schools' Entitlements

Despite today’s sequestration cuts, the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District will see no change in state aid for the 2013-2014 school year, however, they will see a reduction in entitlements.

Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District Business Administrator Veronica Wolf said that the sequestration spending cuts reduced the district’s entitlements by 5.9 percent under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act, according to information provided by the Executive County Superintendent of Schools for Monmouth County.

While these cuts will decrease the entitlements for the 2013-2014 school year, the district should be able to deal with the reductions without much impact on the overall instruction program, Wolf explained.

“The Manalapan-Englishtown Regional Board of Education doesn’t receive a large amount of funding from Federal sources so we’re not as dependent on them as some other districts might be,” Wolf said.

The New Jersey Department of Education promised $8.7 billion in state aid to the state's 580 school districts. Only 300 school districts saw any gainful increases in their aid, according to the report, an overall increase of one percent.

The district will continue to receive $19,691,220 in total aid for 2013-2014, according to an NJ Spotlight report, which is the same amount of aid the district received for 2012-2013.