Gov. Murphy’s budget includes a 12% funding cut for New Jersey’s 18 community colleges. That’s a reduction of $20 million for the best investment our state can make – in young minds, in job training, and in our future workforce – but now our pro-education governor believes that the exact allocation that our state made back in 2002 is still adequate for 2025. Only it isn’t. Here’s what clawing back $20 million would do: The health care training curriculum at County College of Morris, which has been crucial in replenishing our state’s nursing workforce, would be severely scaled back. The mechatr…
