Day 72 - The Quality Education Act of 1990

The Quality Education Act was passed in the New Jersey legislature on May 24, 1990. The act was created to address facility problems, state standards for districts, and ethical standards for school board members among other issues. The six main parts of the Quality Education Act were as follows:

1. to change the general aid formula for elementary and secondary education from a guaranteed tax base system to a foundation program

2. to make local districts responsible for the payment of teacher pensions

3. to redefined the wealth measure that is used to distribute aid

4. to expanded fiscal accountability provisions

5. to eliminated the payment of minimum aid to wealthy school districts

6. to increase state aid to education by $1.1 billion

Reference:

Goertz, R. K., & Goertz, M. E. (1990). The Quality Education Act of 1990: New Jersey Responds to Abbott v. Burke. Journal of Education Finance, 16(1), 104–114. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40703761