GSCS TESTIMONIES, POSITIONS,& TAKES

Salary Caps bill S1987 GSCS Feb. '15

Salary Caps bill S1987 Lenhard Feb. '15

Salary Caps bill S1987 Brogan Feb. '15

Charter School bill - Statement Fall '14

Charter School bill - GSCS Fall '14.docx

State Budget Fiscal Year '14-'15 - GSCS.docx

Excerpts - GSCS 3-20-13Testimony before the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee

6-10-13 GSCS on Charter bill A4177 Diegnan

Tenure Reform legislation - bill passage 6-25-12 - voting history, sponsors, final amended bill S1455Ruiz- A3060Diegnan

GSCS on Tenure Reform A3060 Diegnan, June 14 2012

GSCS on Tenure Reform - S1455Ruiz 'TEACHNJ Act' June 18 2012

GSCS on Moving the Voting Date of School Board Elections before the Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee, December 2011

GSCS on Special Education funding issues, submitted for Senate Education hearing August 9, 2012

GSCS on S2635 Establishes Special Education Task Force 12-1-11 Supports

GSCS on State Budget Fiscal Year 2012-2013

GSCS on State Budget Fiscal Year 2011-2012 to Legislative Budget and Appropriations Committees March 2011

GSCS on Impact of Education Aid Cuts - Senator Buono hearing January 2011

GSCS Message to State Board...State Board of Education to vote on Publishing New Charter School Regulations August 1, 2012, Wednesday

GSCS Letter to Commissioner Cerf re Virtual Charter Schools 7-12-12

GSCS on Proposed Charter School Regulations 6-6-12 before State Board of Education - Concerns

GSCS on Charter Schools - Assembly Education Committee Hearing January 24, 2011

GSCS on Education Mandates before Assembly Environment Committee September 2010

GSCS on Moving the Voting Date of School Board Elections before the Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee, December 2011

Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee

December 15, 2011: S3148 – Norcross

Garden State Coalition of Schools/Lynne Strickland – GSCS Concerns

There is a basic issue with the new approval process for moving school board elections in S3148/A4394 to November general elections, where the municipal body - all on its own - can approve a November election for a school board, regardless of the board of education or public sentiment via petition.

GSCS believes this imposition of a municipal governing body over a school board and/or public vote is a first. The loss of checks and balance, as well as a new precedence where one governing body can overrule another requires a detailed vetting.

GSCS feels this major kind of change is radical, sets precedence and needs in depth conversation. We hope the Legislature does not rush this well-intended bill through the lame duck session.