The [NJ] Democrats’ version of the budget appropriates $447 million in additional funding to the 31 poorest school districts, as the Supreme Court ordered. It adds $580 million to 184 other school districts the court has found are inadequately funded. It applies $87 million to the hundreds of remaining districts and would use $500 million generated by the millionaires’ tax to fully fund the aid formula.

From today’s Daily Reporter.