{"id":174256,"date":"2026-03-25T04:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/174256\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:38:20","slug":"school-board-to-consider-17-tax-increase-review-annual-financial-audit-at-monthly-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/174256\/","title":{"rendered":"School Board to Consider 17% Tax Increase, Review Annual Financial Audit at Monthly Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774413499_544_player-standard.jpg\" alt=\"Everlit Audio Player\" style=\"width: 100%;display: block\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Subscribe today to listen to this content<br \/>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/subscribe\/\" class=\"everlit-paywall-btn\" style=\"display: inline-block;padding: 6px 14px;border-radius: 50px;text-decoration: none;font-size: 11px;font-weight: 500;white-space: nowrap;flex-shrink: 0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        Get Access<br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>At its March meeting Thursday, the Jersey City Board of Education will hear a presentation on the Jersey City Public Schools\u2019 preliminary 2026-2027 budget, which includes a 17% increase to the local tax levy. The board will also discuss the results of the school district\u2019s most recent comprehensive financial audit, which had fewer findings than the previous year\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Get two free articles a month!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/sarah-komar\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774413500_585_14f4422658c64f27072be51cab3869dd9b3718c4d3e9b5a15e2e611909884c94.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSarah Komar is a Jersey City Times staff reporter who primarily covers K-12 and higher education. You can reach her at sarah.komar@jcitytimes.com or 347-644-8528 (call or text). Follow her on X @SarahEKomar,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/sarah-komar\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Sarah Komar\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe today to listen to this content Get Access At its March meeting Thursday, the Jersey City Board&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[17424,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-174256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-jersey-city-education","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}