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Byline: Naomi Mueller
Mar. 30--POINT PLEASANT BEACH -- The $12,566,495 budget adopted by the Board of Education maintains existing staff and teachers in the programs while containing costs, but it would raise the school property tax rate by 11.35 cents, school officials said.
"Our primary goal (with this budget) is to maintain the quality of our educational program," said Schools Superintendent John Ravally. "We want to maintain our staff, maintain our class sizes and maintain the programs that produce good class scores."
In addition to maintaining existing programs, Ravally said the district wants to contain costs. Ravally said the proposed budget does that despite increasing the tax…