Newark school officials approved a budget for the coming school year that would cost the the average homeowner about $40 a year more in property taxes, an increase officials called “mindful of taxpayers,” attributable in part to a continued increase in state aid.
The $1.677-billion 2026-27 budget for the state’s largest school district was adopted unanimously Thursday night by the 9-member Newark Board of Education, capping a public hearing at the George Washington Carver Elementary School in the city’s South Ward.
Apart from the nine board members, Superintendent Roger León, and about a dozen district administrators and staff, the meeting was attended by fewer than 40 members of the public…