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YOU ARE INVITED December 7 2005
December 7 Symposium on School Funding at Douglass College Center, Rutgers University. The event is bieng co-sponsored by the New Jersey School Development Council.

You are invited to participate in a time-critical symposium that will focus on our state’s biggest policy conundrum: an equitable, stable plan for school funding for all and the revenue support required to provide a predictable, workable and reasonable system. Seating is limited

                                                     Co-Sponsored by

The Garden State Coalition of Schools

The New Jersey School Development Council

 

 December 7 at Douglass Center, Douglass College, Rutgers University

 

 

‘It’s Time to get off the Dime’

Pitfalls, Priorities, and Potential…

 

Keynote Speaker:

Kenneth F. Hall, USC

     Founder & Chairman Emeritus, School Services of California

Executive in Residence, University of Southern California

 

Kenneth F. Hall started School Services of California, Inc., (SSC), in 1975 in a one-room Sacramento office and led the company through its first 25 years as President and the next five years as its Chairman of the Board. Today, SSC serves virtually all 1,050 California school districts and county offices and numerous education associations in its areas of specialty: public education management, finance and governance, State Capitol legislative assistance, collective bargaining and fact finding assistance, and school executive training… Ken served in major state positions in both the legislative and executive branches throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. In his last state responsibility, he served as Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Finance (1971-1974) for the state of California, where he shared responsibility for state expenditures, revenues, and general state fiscal policy.

 

                  Presentation:

•  Dr. William Librera

Exec. Director, Rutgers Institute for Improving Student Achievement

Former N. J. Education Commissioner

 

                                      and

• Members, Rutger s Faculty

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Letter and registration form:

GARDEN STATE COALITION OF SCHOOLS/GSCS

210 West State Street

Trenton, New Jersey 08608

609 394 2828   Fax 609 396 7620                                                                                                       

gscs2000@.gmail.com    www.gscschools.org                                                                                   

 

November 7, 2005

 

Dear GSCS Member,

 

We are writing to invite you and interested board of education members and parents in your district to a symposium on school funding that the Garden State Coalition of Schools is co-sponsoring with the New Jersey School Development Council on December 7 at the Douglass Center, Douglass College, Rutgers University. The goal of the forum is to create a venue to stimulate a practical conversation around school funding issues in the State of New Jersey. In turn, a critical outcome of the forum will be to provide ideas that would strongly encourage policymakers to address the need for a stable, workable system of funding our public schools.

 

Garden State Coalition of Schools and the New Jersey Development Council believe that the symposium is well-timed to move this goal forward and we hope you will take the time to join us in this vital effort.  Seating is very limited so we encourage you to get your registration in quickly.   You will receive an e-mail confirmation of your registration.  The link for directions to the Douglass Center at Douglass College is http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dccenter/.  You will find information on this event, as well as other GSCS activities, at our website:gscs2000@gmail.com.

 

 

Thank you for your support and participation in this important effort. We look forward to seeing you at this important event.

 

Sincerely,

 

Dr. Stuart Schnur                                  Lynne Strickland

President                                             Executive Director                    

                         

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                        Please usethe registration form below to mail in your registration form and payment. If you have questions please call or e-mailCyndy Wulfsberg, (856) 234-9039,cyndywu@gmail.comforassistance.

 

 

 

 

December 7 Keynote Speaker:

Kenneth F. Hall

Founder and Chairman Emeritus, School Services of California, Inc.

Executive in Residence, University of Southern California

 

Kenneth F. Hall started School Services of California, Inc., (SSC), in 1975 in a one-room Sacramento office and led the company through its first 25 years as President and the next five years as its Chairman of the Board. Today, SSC serves virtually all 1,050 California school districts and county offices and numerous education associations in its areas of specialty: public education management, finance and governance, State Capitol legislative assistance, collective bargaining and factfinding assistance, and school executive training.

 

Ken continues to serve numerous SSC clients, but is also Executive in Residence at the University of Southern California. As a member of the faculty of the Roosier School of Education, he co-directs the University’s School Business Management Program training school executives to be Chief Business Officials.

 

Ken is well known for his personal expertise in school management, business, public finance, and collective bargaining. He is author of many articles on school finance and budget­ing, has written numerous workshop curricula aimed at serving California superintendents and school board members, and has served as an expert court witness on numerous legal debates. He has negotiated hundreds of collective bargaining agreements and served on about 75 factfinding panels. He has been a keynote speaker for almost every education management organization in California, has made hundreds of presentations to education audiences, and has been a lecturer to more than 20,000 California school executives at SSC’s annual School Finance Conferences.

 

On behalf of the State Legislature, Ken has been Chairman of the Working Group on Finance and Facilities for the Master Plan for Education. He serves on numerous boards, including the University of Redlands Board of Trustees, the San Juan Unified School District Bond Oversight Committee, the Center for Youth Citizenship, and the education advisory committee of the Public Policy Institute of California.

 

Ken served in major state positions in both the legislative and executive branches throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. In his last state responsibility, he served as Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Finance (1971-1974) for the state of California, where he shared responsibility for state expenditures, revenues, and general state fiscal policy. During those years, he was chief architect for California’s major school finance bills, including designing California’s revenue limit, which is the current core funding base for California public education.

 

Ken is a native Californian who was raised in Pasadena and graduated from Pasadena public schools. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Government from the University of Redlands and a Master of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of Southern California. Ken and his wife Lynn have two daughters—an emergency room physician in Santa Monica and a school counselor in San Juan Unified School District.