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GARDEN STATE COALITION OF SCHOOLS/GSCS Special Session: GSCS testimony on funding & consolidation News - School funding DOE study data released Parent & Members – GSCS Nov 1 Press Conf. in Trenton GSCS Board & members meeting: Atlantic City, 10-25 See EMAILNET 10-21-06 for information & details
GARDEN STATE COALITION OF SCHOOLS/GSCS
EMAILNET 10-21-06
Special Session: GSCS testimony on funding & consolidation
News - School funding DOE study data released
Parent & Members – GSCS Nov 1 Press Conf. in
GSCS Board & members meeting: Atlantic City, 10-25
See below for information & details
GSCS Quick Facts: All members are welcome to join the GSCS Board of Trustees in room 417 at Convention Center, 4:30 on Wednesday, 10-25. We hope you will take this opportunity to catch up on GSCS efforts and as well as give GSCS the opportunity to hear from you directly…... A lot has been going on in the past week, take the time to read this EMAILET in its entirety - including related links - to catch up on how
On the GSCS Homepage www.gscschools.org :
10-21-06 Education Data Study Released - how the news is being reported – read these articles …
Study shows N.J. schools underfunded by $190M Saturday, October 21, 2006, The Record…
..."We'd sure like to see how they (the Administration) are defining it," she [Lynne Strickland, Exec.Director of Garden State Coalition]said, expressing frustration at a lack of dialogue over the issues. "I would hope that we get a really open and viable discussion," she said. "These things must be aired in a public domain with enough credit given to the public to discuss it productively."
Star Ledger Mid-level districts short on funding, school study finds N.J. report: Hundreds feeling cash crunch….
..."This is all about the bottom line, not the education or the kids." [Bonnie] Granatir said her community [Livingston] is comfortable with how much it spends. "When you look at how our children perform, they would see the money is well spent," she said. Staff writer Mark Mueller contributed to this report.
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GSCS Board Meeting in Atlantic City Wed 10-25 in Rm 417, 4:30pm
All members are welcome to join the GSCS Board of Trustees in room 417 at Convention Center, 4:30 on Wednesday, 10-25. The meeting will convene promptly after the NJSBA 'Legislative Session' and is located above the 'Session' room. Hear the latest on GSCS' efforts regarding school funding and school consolidation proposals. Executive Director Lynne Strickland and School House Strategies' Richard Rosenberg will report to members on specific activities on behalf of GSCS, as well as present on up-to-date details on what's going on in the Statehouse' Special Session that is likely to impact quality education ... and what you can do to help see that our students continue to achieve at high levels.
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GSCS Press Conf at the Statehouse set for November 1, 11:00 a.m.
ATTENTION GSCS MEMBERS/PARENTS: WE NEED YOUR HELP We need to have a large group on hand at the press conference in Trenton to make a visual statement of support for GSCS’ November 1 Press Conference -noted below- that will address school funding and governance issues under deliberation in Trenton in its Special Session on Property Taxes. As you know, the legislature and the Governor are set to recommend significant change to our system of public education. Our concerns need to be heard and our voices must resonate throughout the state. Please let us know how many from your district plan to join with GSCS in
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GSCS Testimonies before Special Session Committees this week (Oct 16th)
Three recent GSCS Testimonies are attached. One (1), presented yesterday October 18, 2006, by invitation to the Joint Committee on Gov’t Consolidation and Shared Services, presented by ExecutiveDirector Lynne Strickland; (2) as presented Tuesday, October 17, 2006 to the Joint Committee on Public School Funding Reform, presented by Jim O'Neill, GSCS Treasurer and Supt of the Chathams, and Betsy Ginsburg, GSCS Parent Representative and Glen Ridge Board of Education President.
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Week of October 23, 2006 Special Session & Assem Educ. meetings
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Week of October 16, 2006 Special Session notes
Professional courtesy to GSCS from PPAG (Princeton Public Affairs Group)
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10-18-06 Star Ledger 'Let the school merger fight begin
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10-17-06 Legislators oppose forced consolidtation
Forced consolidation wrong for
...At a recent hearing, an assemblyman asked if our residents would choose to live in nearly 600 separate towns if they had it to do all over again. We believe the answer to that question should be left up to the residents of those towns and not forced on them by
Patrick J. Diegnan Jr., Peter J. Barnes Jr.,
Assemblymen, 18th District
MIDDLESEX
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10-16-06 A New Public Dialogue on Public Education
How Pennsylvania is approaching the development of a new way of funding its public schools – differing from New Jersey’s approach which has cast the state and the public in the ‘rock and a hard place’ corner, where enough 'real time' for open dialogue and consensus-building seems to be taking a back seat to the pressure of property tax reform. (GSCS 10-16-06)
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10-16-06 Update on Joint Comm. on Public Employees Benefits Reform 10-12-06
GSCS was among those invited to speak at the hearing. This write up offers detailed information on the presentations before the committee. See GSCS testimony below.
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Joint Legislative Committee on Public School Funding Reform | ||
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 1:00 PM | ||
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Meeting - Committee Room 11, 4th Floor, State House Annex, | ||
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Commissioner Davy and School Finance expert John Augenblick will present |
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Joint Leg. Com. on Gov't Consolidation & Shared Services | ||
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 10:00 AM | ||
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Meeting - Committee Room 11, 4th Floor, State House Annex, | ||
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Agenda to be announced |
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Joint Leg. Com. on Gov't Consolidation & Shared Services | ||
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 10:00 AM | ||
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Meeting - Committee Room 11, 4th Floor, State House Annex, | ||
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The Committee will hear from invited guests regarding private sector initiatives that could be used to streamline service delivery or make government operations more efficient. |
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Assembly Education | ||
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Monday, October 23, 2006 - 2:00 PM | ||
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Meeting - Committee Room 16, 4th Floor, State House Annex, | ||
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The committee will receive testimony from Barry L. Zubrow and Scott Weiner of the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation (SCC) on the Third Report to the Governor by the Interagency Working Group for School Construction. |
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Committee on the Public Schools | ||
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:00 AM | ||
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Meeting - State House Annex, Committee Room 6 | ||
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Scott Weiner, CEO of the NJ SCC and Barry Zubrow, Chairman of the Board of the NJ SCC will brief the committee on pertinent issues as well as the latest Interagency Working Group for School Construction report and recommendations. |
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