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Steven Greenhouse (NYT) NEW JERSEY TRENTON: SCHOOL BUDGET ELECTION RESULTS -- Voters approved only 81.1percentt of school budgets in Tuesday's elections, down from a record 88.1percentt last year, the State Department of Education announced yesterday.

IN Glen Ridge, the schools superintendent and other school board members laid out coffee and doughnuts at the train station in the center of town one recent morning to talk to residents about the need for more school financing and the coming school budget election.

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Even districts without direct budget elections are feeling pressure to hold down property taxes.

Almost twice as many people as usual voted in the New Jersey school budget elections.

(The five largest school districts, including New York City's, did not hold budget elections).

Despite the imposition of a cap this year that limits the increase in property tax collections to 2 percent, school districts in New Jersey are heading into budget elections on Wednesday largely free of the anger and turmoil of last year's budget season.

In New York State, where school budget elections will be held next week, Long Islanders for Educational Reform, a citizens' group, has started Operation Rollback to oppose budgets in districts that did not freeze either teachers' wages or school taxes.

While the annual April school budget elections tend to get only about 15percentt of registered voters to the polls, bond votes usually get between 25 and 30percentt, he said.

After a pre-election Budget, the election still looks close.

Residents went to the polls in record numbers for the normally low-profile school-budget elections, and rejected 316 of the 541 budgets on the ballot.