Legislature

3-13-14 Education and Related State Budget Issues in the News

1-14-14 Education in Governor Christie's State of the Stae Message today

1-14-14 Education bills in Lame Duck

1-3-14 First Legislative Week of the New Year

September 2013 - Recently Introduced Legislation

7-3-13 What's Been Happening... GSCS Catch Up-Catch All

6-28-13 Dyslexia bills pass in Senate...now go to Gov's desk for signature

6-27-13 Last day of legislative session before summer break - education bills on the agenda

6-20-13 Stay Tuned...State Budget FY'14 Finalized, in Budget Committees Today...Senate Education Comm OK'd Special Education Package of Bills Yesterday

6-19-13 State Budget Nears Agreement...SDA Fees to be Reduced

6-19-13 Special Education on Senate Education Committee Agenda Today

6-18-13 Today - Senate Budget Committee Scheduled to Hear Legislature's Proposed Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2013-2014

6-7-13 In the News - Resolution to Extend Evaluations Process...School Board Candidates Waning

5-24-13 Legislation - Diegnan Charter Bill Controversial....Teacher endorsement bill discussed

3-7-13In the News - Subcontracting bill Issue...School Construction Numbers

2-13-13 Assembly Voting Session for 2-14-13

2-12-13 'Full-day kindergarten great, but costly, idea'

2-2-13 NY Times –editorial- More Lessons About Charter Schools

2-1-13 Bullying Decision in the News

Members Only - GSCS Notes on Senate Education Committee Dialogues with Commissioner Cerf 1-28-13

1-28-13 Commissioner Cerf converses with Senate Education Committee

1-29-13 Bills related to schools that passed in NJ Assembly yesterday

Legislative Calendar January - March 2013, as released December 19, 2012

GSCS Testimony on Hurricane Sandy before Assembly Education Comm - Aftermath and Suggestions

Assembly Education Committee Meeting Thursday, 12-13-12, 1 pm

Legislative Calendar for December 2012, as of 12-3-12 pm

Credo Study of NJ Charter Schools by Stanford Univ 12-11-17

Educator Evaluation Update Memo from Dept of Education 11-13-12

10-25-12 Late Morning Breaking News - 'Court sides with state on salary cap case'

Legislative Issues

In Play: Current Bills and Issues

Education Reform Issues

2-13-13 Assembly Voting Session for 2-14-13
The voting session includes legislative concurrent resolutions SCR134/ACR172 (identical bills)which "Express(es) the Legislature's objection to certain recommendations included in the Governor's Education Adequacy Report (EAR)"...the concurrent resolution already passed out of the Senate last week. If passed in both houses, the Governor has 30 days to respond to the objections, per the SFRA law. After the Governor responds, the law is 'silent'. Complicating the issues in this debate is that the data analysis recently released on the EAR compares state aid funding of the EAR student weights to aid funding as if the SFRA were fully funded. However,SFRA has not been fully funded since 2008 (the SFRA law's first year of implementation).

Assembly
Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 1:00 PM
Assembly Chambers
	Voting Session:

Bill	Abstract	Current Status	LDOA

A60	Integrity monitors-auth. deployment	2RA	2/7/2013
A61	Hurricane Sandy recovery fds-oversight	2RA	2/7/2013
A840	MV passing cert. horses-estab. req.	2RA	3/8/2012
A2142	Tanning beds-proh. minors under 17	2RAC	2/7/2013
A3312	New Jobs for NJ Act	2RA	12/13/2012
A3352	Human Trafficking Prev, Prot, Treatment	2RA	1/28/2013
A3546	Higher ed student-health insur. coverage	2RA	1/14/2013
A3595	Persons w/ Disab. Communities Comm.	2RA	1/17/2013
A3679	Pub works proj.-revise definition	2RA	1/28/2013
A3744	Suppl. Nutrition Asst. Prog.-estab.	2RA	2/7/2013
A3758	Cred. card purch-proh imposing surcharge	2RA	2/7/2013
A3793	Earned income tax cred. prog.-incr. benf	2RA	2/7/2013
A3794	Workforce Devel. and Ed. Comm.-estab.	2RA	2/7/2013
A3795	Small bus. loan guarantee prog.-estab.	2RA	2/7/2013
ACR138	Prof. Social Work Mo.-desig. March 2012	2RA	2/7/2013
ACR172	Ed. Adequacy Report-Leg, cert objections	2RA	1/14/2013
AR91	PANYNJ-investigate finances	2RA	2/11/2013
AR138	Viol Against Women Act-failure to reauth	2RA	2/11/2013
S116	Persons w/ Disab. Communities Comm.	2RA	1/17/2013
S2211	New Jobs for NJ Act	2RA	2/7/2013
S2291	Higher ed student-health insur. coverage	2RA	1/14/2013
S2366	Suppl. Nutrition Asst. Prog.-estab.	2RA	2/7/2013
S2425	Pub works proj.-revise definition	2RA	1/28/2013
S2473	Small bus. loan guarantee prog.-estab.	2RA	2/7/2013
S2483	Workforce Devel. and Ed. Comm.-estab.	2RA	2/7/2013
S2533	Cred. card purch-proh imposing surcharge	2RA	2/7/2013
S2535	Earned income tax cred. prog.-incr. benf	2RA	2/7/2013
SCR1	Min. wage-set at $8.25	2RA	2/7/2013
SCR134	Ed. Adequacy Report-Leg, cert objections	2RA	2/7/2013