51.   The councils are responsible for everything from hiring and evaluating school principals to developing academic goals and approving school budgets.

52.   The defeated school budget will be reviewed by the town government.

53.   The idea is a direct challenge to the mayor, who has been slashing the school budget ever since he took office.

54.   The mayor has been criticized by several opposing candidates for having cut the schools budget, particularly in arts education.

55.   The schools budget was balanced, waste was eliminated, and squads of managers were assembled to help in the worst schools.

56.   The Roosevelt school budget will not require a tax increase, in part because of an advance in state aid approved by the Legislature on Monday.

57.   The School District of the Chathams, which includes both Chatham Borough and Chatham Township, has a fairly solid record of winning support for its school budgets.

58.   Their growing numbers are swelling school budgets.

59.   Though high school arts are suddenly getting more attention in Washington and other cities, for years the first cuts to school budgets have been in arts programs.

60.   Today, this program and its kind are nowhere to be found, victims of shrinking school budgets and the progressive views of our New Jersey education commissioner.