Ciattarelli wants to change New Jersey’s school funding plan. His idea may not be that new.

By CARLY SITRIN  -  08/23/2021 05:08 AM EDT

Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli is eager to tell voters what his school funding plan isn’t.

According to Ciattarelli, it’s not a fully-funded version of the current state aid formula. It’s not the flat rate former Gov. Chris Christie proposed before leaving office. It’s not Senate President Steve Sweeney’s plan to redistribute aid and it’s not exactly what Ciattarelli, a former assemblymember proposed when he ran for governor in 2017.

But asked directly during a campaign event last week in Jersey City for details about his plan, Ciattarelli spoke in generalizations.

“We need a new school funding formula. The current formula is nefarious, it's arbitrary, it’s unfair, and I believe it's unconstitutional,” he said at the event, which was billed as the roll-out of his “detailed plan to lower property taxes.”

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