Edison Board of Education $367 million 2024-25 FY School Budget

 Well, here's the County Super approved Preliminary School Budget for FY 2024-25. Public meeting for this budget is scheduled for April 30, 2024. Thought you might want to see what they've proposed in enough time to review before they adopt it. They are no longer putting out budgets where you can see the detail behind each line item and going solely with the DoE 'User Friendly' format - which isn't so detailed or user friendly.

Be that as it may, you might want to pay attention to this budget, albeit lacking sufficient detail to make sense of any of the numbers including the changes from the prior year, especially with no headcount analysis for single largest expenditure in the budget - Salaries.

Recognize when comparing this year to last year they're not comparing to last year's budget. On February1st they use the actual numbers at that time, which has always been the source of the 'Staffing Shell Game' where any heads they hired between July1 and January 1 were never disclosed to the Public in their budgets. They don't have to worry about being called out with that practice anymore since they no longer show any headcount analysis - for the original budget, the actuals on February 1 and any new heads in the current budget.

Anyhoo, they'll be a lot more to say about all the numbers in this budget before the April 30, 2024 adoption meeting including all the budget games they play as well as the CY tax levy and tax rate for 2024 calculations in this budget.