The districts already share a superintendent but want to see if more cost-savings can be had.
in Ocean and Burlington counties and Roosevelt in Monmouth County are also using state grants for K-12 regionalization studies.
, Sea Bright leadership said it “believed that all three communities could benefit both educationally and financially from the creation of this new school district.”decline the invitation Under the new law, the state pays interested school districts for half of the cost of the study, then gives the districts the remainder of the money after the study is accepted by the department. School districts that apply for the grants are not obliged to go through with a merger, only to study it. And under the law, districts have to abandon plans to combine if the consultants find it would cost taxpayers more money or create inefficiencies.