{"id":147471,"date":"2026-03-25T00:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147471\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:03:11","slug":"collingswood-to-close-garfield-elementary-cut-staff-programs-amid-4-6m-district-funding-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147471\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingswood to Close Garfield Elementary, Cut Staff, Programs Amid $4.6M District Funding Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"940\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/James-A-Garfield-Elementary-School-in-Collingswood.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\tJames A Garfield Elementary School in Collingswood. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Spiking increases in costs, cuts to federal aid, a downturn in student enrollment, and changes to the state aid formulation have the district financially cornered, its leadership says. Collingswood Schools have operated with a structural budget deficit for 13 years, and the state says the district has derived a below-adequate share of its operational costs locally for 17 years. Sign in or subscribe to continue reading\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tBy<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMatt Skoufalos\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMarch 24, 2026\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.njpen.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.njpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Want-to-keep-reading.svg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James A Garfield Elementary School in Collingswood. Credit: Matt Skoufalos. Spiking increases in costs, cuts to federal aid,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67223,67224,67225,67226,67227,67228,67229,67230,62334,62337,67231,69,71,70,67232,67233,67234,67235],"class_list":["post-147471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-beth-ann-coleman","tag-collingswood-board-of-education","tag-collingswood-close-garfield","tag-collingswood-school-board","tag-fred-mcdowell","tag-garfield-school","tag-jackie-walters","tag-kelly-maia","tag-matt-skoufalos","tag-njpen","tag-oaklyn","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-roger-chu","tag-sarah-sherman","tag-woodlynne","tag-zakiya-devine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}