Wanted to add while there are no guarantees that this year’s Change For Children reps will not turncoat like Noemi Velasquez did stabbing the taxpayers in the back last year voting YES to near $1B budget and now flipped to Education Matters slate that is funded by the union aka JCEA, NJEA, Jersey City Together or some variation thereof, rest assured we have a board member who is named after a founding father who has always voted with his heart against the budget increase. In 2020 he was the lone dissent 8-1 vote. In 2021 he was dissent in 6-3 vote. And most recently NO vote in $1B budget. And just as an FYI total enrollment in JC public schools including charters has dropped the last 5 years but BOE increased the budget near 50% in the same timeframe and they have used desperate parents with children in schools without drinkable water and leaky roofs that they willfully ignored for years despite more money being poured in, as marionettes. And when you see the same sheep copy and paste tired old links from well known pro budget and union activist civicparent.org or jcitytimes.com to spread the “underfunded” or “first time in years the schools are fully funded” spin please smack them in the face for being the mouthpiece of very people who want to steal from your hard earned paychecks every pay period.