[brief] 1.  Underfunding of [...]’s Adequacy Budget  In SFRA’s first year of implementation -- 2008-09 -- [...]’s Adequacy Budget was “fully funded,” i.e., the District received state and local revenue to provide students with essential education resources at the formula’s Adequacy Budget level.  (Pa915, ¶ 37; Pa1925-Pa1927.)  [...] was able to spend at its Adequacy Budget level even though the local levy – or actual property taxes raised – was far below its LFS under the formula.  The local levy gap in its Adequacy Budget was closed through a combination of Equalization Aid, Adjustment Aid and EAA from the State.  (Pa915, ¶¶ 31-37; Pa1927.)  Since its enactment, [...]’s Adequacy Budget has been steadily increasing.  (Pa927, ¶ 144.)  From 2008-09 to 2019-20, the Adequacy Budget increased nearly $150 million, from $473.8 million to $622.8 million, or over 31%.  (Pa913, ¶¶ 20, 160; cf. Pa331 and Pa1509.)  As its Adequacy Budget has risen, the state and local revenue to enable [...] to spend at that level has not kept pace, resulting in a consistent and growing shortfall in the funding available to meet the cost of educating [...] students to achieve the NJSLS.  The SFRA data in the following table shows [...]’s weighted student enrollment; its Adequacy Budget level by per-pupil and on a total cost basis; and the funding shortfall by per pupil and total amount from 2008-09 through 2019-20:  | School Year | Weighted Enrollment | Adequacy Budget | Adequacy Budget/Per Weighted Pupil | Adequacy Budget Funding | Adequacy Budget Funding/Per Weighted Pupil | Shortfall | Shortfall/Per Weighted Pupil | |-------------|---------------------|-----------------|------------------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------------------------|-----------|-------------------------------| | 2008-09 | 43,921 | $473,854,172 | $10,789 | $474,873,146 | $10,812 | $0 | $0 | | 2009-10 | 43,624 | $486,315,450 | $11,148 | $480,344,364 | $11,011 | $5,971,086| $137 | | 2010-11 | 48,108 | $489,564,151 | $10,176 | $462,640,757 | $9,617 | $26,923,394| $560 | | 2011-12 | 43,395 | $497,534,646 | $11,465 | $490,855,850 | $11,311 | $6,678,796| $154 | | 2012-13 | 40,722 | $491,127,159 | $12,060 | $489,658,119 | $12,024 | $1,469,040| $36 | | 2013-14 | 41,366 | $517,593,230 | $12,513 | $494,363,390 | $11,951 | $23,229,840| $562 | | 2014-15 | 45,778 | $579,277,523 | $12,654 | $487,635,226 | $10,652 | $91,642,297| $2,002 | | 2015-16 | 46,875 | $601,290,845 | $12,828 | $488,786,917 | $10,427 | $112,503,928| $2,400 | | 2016-17 | 46,921 | $588,836,489 | $12,550 | $487,945,925 | $10,399 | $100,890,564| $2,150 | | 2017-18 | 46,426 | $584,758,085 | $12,595 | $483,044,166 | $10,405 | $101,713,919| $2,191 | | 2018-19 | 46,119 | $590,163,255 | $12,797 | $486,413,603 | $10,547 | $103,749,652| $2,250 | | 2019-20 | 46,126 | $622,876,777 | $13,504 | $467,448,894 | $10,134 | $155,427,883| $3,370 | (Pa931, ¶ 160.)  While [...] was funded slightly above its Adequacy Budget level in SFRA’s first year of implementation -- 2008-09 -- a funding shortfall quickly emerged in 2009-10.  (Pa915, ¶ 38 - Pa916, ¶ 43.)  That shortfall was reduced in 2011-12 and 2012-13 when the State, under Supreme Court order, restored a cut in state formula aid of over $400 million to [...] and the other Abbott districts.  Abbott v. Burke, 206 N.J. 332 (2011) (“Abbott XXI”); (Pa916, ¶ 46 – Pa918, ¶ 70.)  Following the Abbott XXI order, the funding shortfalls in [...]’s Adequacy Budget began to grow significantly, reaching approximately $155.5 million, or $3370 per weighted pupil, in 2019-20.  (Pa931, ¶ 160.)  For the first decade of SFRA’s operation, the cumulative funding shortfall in the District’s Adequacy Budget totaled $730.2 million.  (Id.)  2.