1) What’s happening ?
2) what’s the chance of them ever collecting it ?
The state funding formula for education works against neighborhoods that a bigger percentage sends to private schools, Monsey and some other non Jewish communities have the same issue
the give financial aid based on how rich/poor the district is which is calculated by = Total real estate value / Public School pupils
they take the real estate value of all residents including those that send to private schools divided by public schools, so if you the real estate of 75k children from the private schools divided by 15k public school students, it seems to be a rich neighborhood and we lose funding year after year
even though the BOE is required to provide mandatory services for private students, special ed, etc.
the local government doesn't have the funds so they borrow year after year, the loans get bigger and bigger
this is a 7 year law suite and MI representing the Lakewood BOE made an announcement that I cant wrap me head around, that the sate does provide the constitutional education, which basically sinks the case if position is accepted.