{"id":269402,"date":"2026-08-21T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269402\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:46:09","slug":"collingswood-schools-prepares-4-56m-operations-referendum-for-november-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269402\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingswood Schools Prepares $4.56M Operations Referendum for November Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img width=\"940\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Students-coloring-in-a-Georgia-classroom.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\tStudents coloring in a Georgia classroom. Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@cdc?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CDC<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/boy-in-green-sweater-writing-on-white-paper-GDokEYnOfnE?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unsplash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Superintendent of Schools Fred McDowell says the financial ask is necessary to maintain continuity of services in the district, which estimates a nearly $4-million gap in its 2027-28 budget without the additional revenues. The district has struggled to maintain services amid rising costs for energy and insurance and a state funding formula that expects the local tax base to contribute more based on property assessments. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njpen.com\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a> or subscribe to continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tBy<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMatt Skoufalos\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tAugust 21, 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":"Students coloring in a Georgia classroom. Photo by CDC on Unsplash. Superintendent of Schools Fred McDowell says the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67223,67224,113585,88442,113586,113587,67227,62337,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-269402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-beth-ann-coleman","tag-collingswood-board-of-education","tag-collingswood-operations-referendum","tag-collingswood-schools","tag-collingswood-schools-budget","tag-collingswood-schools-structural-deficit","tag-fred-mcdowell","tag-njpen","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269402","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=269402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}