School funding must be addressed in Trenton
     In classrooms and school districts across New Jersey, springtime heralds a period of anticipation and high anxiety as students sit down to tackle standardized tests and taxpayers weigh in on school budgets that make up an ever-increasing portion of our tax burden. For New Jersey public schools sprin
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Fiscal responsibility should be top job for Marlboro school board
     I have been a Marlboro resident for the past 20 years and I was not surprised about the proposed school budget for K-8 in Marlboro, which, by the way, we had been forewarned about some time ago and at every school event I attended this year.
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Reader supports Vas' initiative to license illegal aliens
     Your opinion expressed in the March 15 editorial "A Solid %27No Go%27 to Licenses for Illegals" is going the wrong way down the street. Our state representative and voters should support state Assemblyman Joseph Vas%27 initiative to license resident aliens who are not documented.
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Freehold Borough resident opposes school referendum
     The Freehold Borough schools are going to try again to burden the people of Freehold with a multimillion-dollar voting plan to expand the three local schools.
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Youngsters can show adults how to work together
     The polemic and accusatory discourse rising from the political halls of Manalapan was extremely dismaying, especially as it was repulsively replete with ethnic slurs, calls for resignation and other facets of current personal vindictive on "both sides." Accordingly, I was heartened to see Managing E
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Parents do not pay nearly enough in school taxes
     In his March 22 column about expenses seniors face, Greg Bean supports the idea of sparing seniors the burden of school taxes mainly because they haven%27t had any kids in the school system for 40 to 50 years (but he%27s strangely silent about the same breaks for those who have never had kids in any
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Governor is no financial whiz in saving N.J. budget
     The most realistic part of Gov. Jon Corzine%27s budget address may have shattered the dreams of New Jersey voters, since it dealt with his confessional. He stated, "to those who thought my financial background would mean I had some magic bullet in my holster to balance the budget, I am sorry to disa
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