New York, NY —

New Jersey lawmakers will focus on public education and public employee benefits this week as continue their special session designed to reign in the state's rising property taxes.

Lawmakers will roll up their sleeves and attempt to lower the cost of public education, often blamed for driving up property taxes. New Jersey has over 600 school districts with one school per district. Each School has a building principal and a superintendent, making six figures incomes.

A recent report from State Commission of investigation found that local districts had gone to great lengths to conceal millions of dollars in top administrator pay and benefits from the public. Legislators are considering consolidating districts and mandating that they share services. On average New Jersey spends less on public education, funding 4O percent while the national average is over 5O, but the state funding is overwhelmingly focused in the urban core with rural and suburban districts getting just a fraction of their costs picked up by Trenton.