Brigantine Schools

Brigantine Schools Release Salary Data for 2014

See 2014/15 Brigantine School District SALARY data here. Brigantine Taxpayers Association (BTA) received this information on Nov 12, 2014, in cooperation with Brigantine City Hall, Superintendent Brian Pruitt and Mayor Guenther. This public service helps local taxpayers evaluate our public school system. The Brigantine Taxpayers Association continues to advocate for […]

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Brigantine Teacher Salaries Among Highest in State

Teacher salaries in the Brigantine were among the highest in NJ for 2013-14 school year. (NJ Department of Education). Brigantine ranked 13th overall with a median salary of $83,687. This compares to the median teacher salary of $64,000 across the state. On average Ocean City teachers made $86,772, Hamilton Township

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2014 Taxpayers’ Guide to Education Spending. BRIGANTINE SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Taxpayers’ Guide to Education Spending provides Brigantine Taxpayers with the opportunity to view and compare dollars spent on students enrolled in the Brigantine public school system.  For the first time in FY 2011, the Department began publishing a more inclusive measure of total costs for students from preschool through

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High Cost of Low Grades. Brigantine Student Performance Slips Again.

Brigantine Elementary & Middle school performance results have been released for 2014, and parents are not happy. The results show academic performance of Brigantine students seriously lags in comparison to schools across the state. The Brigantine middle school is borderline bottom 20%… when compared to schools across the state. These

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Brigantine School District Loses Vote in Atlantic City System

Brigantine School District no longer has voting rights for their part in the Atlantic City School system. (see here) As a ‘sending district’, Brigantine taxpayers contribute approx. $20,000 for every Brigantine student sent to AC high. According to Superintendent Brian Pruitt, Brigantine sends 170 kids to AC High, which means

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Brigantine Schools Consider Shared Services with AC & Ventnor

Brigantine school district superintendent Brian Pruitt, and other executive leadership from the Brigantine school district will meet with representatives from the Ventnor and Atlantic City schools to discuss ways to save taxpayers money. According to the Downbeach Current, Ventnor school board President James E. Pacanowski said a meeting date has

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Brigantine Schools Closer to Merging

A school consolidation report is due later this year. A growing number of residents see that the two Brigantine Schools; Elementary & Middle, need to have certain positions & resources combined or removed. Enrollment #’s have now dropped below 700, making the duplicative positions and support staff positions unnecessary. Noting

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Brigantine School Tax Increase and Budget OK’d

From Press of AC & Beachcomber News: Brigantine’s Board of School Estimate passed a school budget that includes a tax rate increase of 18 percent. Despite a 2 percent decrease in the district’s actual budget for the 2014-15 school year, calculations by the state Department of Education put the tax

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Brigantine Schools Questioned by Taxpayers Association.

BrigantineNOW Letter to the Editor.  Brigantine Taxpayers Association Misrepresenting Schools, by Veronica McEvoy…. As a mother of six who presently has four children enrolled in the Brigantine School system, and as a Brigantine taxpayer, I was quite dismayed at the Brigantine Taxpayers Association’s advertisement in the Jan. 31 The Beachcomber News. The

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Cut Excessive School Costs Before Raising Taxes

To the editor, from MARY ANN KOZACK. Cut excessive school costs before raising taxes. While everyone has been watching the televised budget debate playing out at City Council meetings, is anyone paying attention to the Brigantine school budget? At the special Council meeting on Tuesday night, the mayor clearly stated

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Brigantine Schools Need Less High Paid Execs

To the editor. From Anne Phillips; Brigantine Taxpayers Association. In the spring of 2012 we wrote a letter to the President of the Brigantine Board of Education which was subsequently printed in The Beachcomber News. In it, we expressed our recommendation for lowering the amount of property taxes we all

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