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May 18, 2006 • Vol. XXIX • No. 38

Education by the Numbers

Staffing Cuts

Total staff cuts* in 2005-06 final public school budgets

Percentage of those staff cuts reflected in 2005-06 budgets originally proposed by local school boards.

Percentage of cuts resulting from municipal review of defeated budgets.

(Source: NJ State Department of Education response to Office of Legislative Services survey on proposed 2006-07 state budget.)

* Staff cuts may have been achieved through layoffs, retirement or attrition.