GSCS thanks the lead sponsors of S600 for bringing this important bill to fruition: Senator JENNIFER BECK District 11 (Monmouth) Senator M. TERESA RUIZ District 29 (Essex)and identical bill A1365 Assemblyman DAVID P. RIBLE District 30 (Monmouth and Ocean) Assemblywoman MARY PAT ANGELINI District 11 (Monmouth) Assemblyman JASON O'DONNELL District 31 (Hudson) Assemblywoman DONNA M. SIMON District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset).

4-23-14/GSCS Note: While there has been a lag time in getting this  Special EducationTask Force underway, there is no doubt that it is needed. GSCS looks forward to being on this Task Force and to working on solutions that will improve the delivery of special education programs to students as well as to seek to resolve underlying funding issues that need to be addressed.

Special Education Task Force bill signed into law by Governor (Winter 2013)

S600 "Establishes task force to study various issues related to improving special education programs and services for public school students...There is established a Task Force on Improving Special Education for Public School Students to consist of 17 members as follows: the Commissioner of Education, ex officio, or a designee; and 16 members appointed by the Governor, including one parent or guardian of a public school student receiving special education services, one parent or guardian of a student attending a private school for students with disabilities, one public school special education teacher, one director of special education services for a school district, one representative of the Arc of New Jersey, one representative of the New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities, one representative of the New Jersey Parent-Teacher Association, one representative of the New Jersey Association of School Administrators, one representative of the New Jersey Education Association, one representative of the New Jersey School Boards Association, one representative of the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association, one representative of the New Jersey Association of School Business Officials, one representative of the Statewide Parent Advocacy Network of New Jersey, one representative of the Garden State Coalition of Schools, one representative of ASAH, and one representative of the American Federation of Teachers..."

GSCS thanks the lead sponsors of S600 for bringing this important bill to fruition: Senator JENNIFER BECK District 11 (Monmouth) Senator M. TERESA RUIZ District 29 (Essex) Assemblyman DAVID P. RIBLE District 30 (Monmouth and Ocean) Assemblywoman MARY PAT ANGELINI District 11 (Monmouth) Assemblyman JASON O'DONNELL District 31 (Hudson) Assemblywoman DONNA M. SIMON District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset