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BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING SEPT. 24^th, 3:30 p.m., at the East BRUNSWICK BOARD OF EDUCATION. Andrew Hendry, Office of Senate Majority Leader Steve Sweeney, will be joining us. Directions to the meeting may be found under the sidebar link here, under "Board Information". Members are welcome. Please RSVP gscs200o@gmail.com you’re your attendance plans.

Forums:

October 7 - GSCS, the Special Education Coalition for Funding Reform, and the Rutgers Institute for Improving Student Achievement co-sponsor Promoting Excellence: Best Practice in Special Education & the Funding Frameworks to Support it. See Forum notice and registration form directly below.

September 19 - League of Municipalities’ Education Foundation, Inc., in conjunction with the NJ Department of Education is presenting a state wide conference “THE NEW EDUCATION ORDER: SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION, CONSTRUCTION, FUNDING AD PRESCHOOL EXPANISION” Sept. 19. Go to the League’s website at www.njslom.org  for details.

 

October 7^th YOU ARE INVITED: Join with us in an essential conversation focused on ‘common needs’; on possibilities that can bring the special education and regular education together for bottom line advocacy…

Rutgers University Institute for Improving Student Achievement (RIISA) joins

The Garden State Coalition of Schools & The New Jersey Coalition for Special Education Funding Reform

In Co-Sponsoring:

Promoting Excellence:

Best Practice in Special Education & the Funding Frameworks to Support it

featuring

Bruce Baker, Ed.D.,

University of Kansas

 

Robert Pasternack, Ph.D.,

former Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), USDOE

 

Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 9:00 – 12:30

Busch College Campus Center, Piscataway NJ

 

You are cordially invited to join us in a unique collaboration that brings together key stakeholders in New Jersey to help build a foundation of shared information and a national perspective on best practices in special education service delivery and the funding frameworks that support them.

 

 

Parking and directions information will be available at:  www.gscschools.org

 

Our guests:

 

 Bruce Baker, Ed.D.

 

A Current Look at State Funding Formulas Nationally: The Impact on Special Education

Bruce Baker is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Kansas, where he teaches courses on school finance policy. Since 2000, Dr. Baker has published over 30 peer reviewed research articles in leading academic journals and law reviews. Baker is author of the recently published Financing Education Systems, from Merrill/Prentice-Hall. He has consulted for state legislatures on the design of state school finance policies in Texas, Missouri, New Jersey and Wyoming, for independent groups in Washington and Illinois and has testified in school finance related constitutional challenges. Dr. Baker's work focuses on costs associated with differences in student educational needs and the design of school funding formulas to meet those needs. Dr. Baker has conducted research on racial disparities in school funding and the intersection between school funding disparities and desegregation.

Robert Pasternack, Ph.D.

Best Practices in Special Education: Funding Policies to Support Excellence

Robert Pasternack is the senior vice-president for special education at Voyager Expanded Learning, a leading provider of in-school reading and math intervention programs, and professional development programs being used in more than 1,000 school districts throughout the United States, including New York City, Philadelphia, Richmond, Dallas, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C., resulting in dramatically improved student performance. Prior to that, he served in the Bush Administration as assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services. He is a nationally certified school psychologist, certified educational diagnostician, licensed special education teacher for grades K-12 and licensed school administrator. He served as director of special education for the New Mexico State Department of Education. Pasternack has lifelong personal experience with people with disabilities. For nearly 20 years, he has served as the legal guardian for his brother, who was born with Down syndrome.