HUDSON COUNTY – The state’s acting education commissioner Rochelle Hendricks announced on Monday the allocation of the $268 million in federal funds that New Jersey received to create and/or save education jobs in school districts across the state. The funds come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Education Job Funds program.
The 13 school districts in Hudson County are to get a combined total of $28.5 million in funds with Jersey City getting $13.8 million, the second highest total in the state behind Newark’s $23.7 million. Jersey City received $27 million less in state school aid for the current school year than the previous one.
Hendricks sent out a letter today to school districts across the state stating that the U.S. Department of Education requires the funds be spent by September 2012. She also called on districts to try to put as much as possible of their funds in reserve for “austere days to come.”
The other Hudson County districts received the following: Bayonne $1,770,866, Union City $5,146,363, West New York $2,649,678, North Bergen $1,859,551, Weehawken $104,529, Hoboken $311,513, Secaucus $54,621, Hudson County Vocational $706,451, Guttenberg $157,842, East Newark $109,183, Harrison $665,897 and Kearny $1,018,085. – RK