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GARDEN STATE COALITION OF SCHOOLS/GSCS
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING SEPT. 24th, 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.
GSCS MEETINGS CALENDAR 2008-2009 Board of Trustees meetings are held the LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH 3:30 East Brunswick Board of Education, unless noted otherwise.
September 24
Oct 7 Forum – Special Education Forum, co-sponsored by GSCS, the Special Education Coalition for Funding Reform, and Rutgers RIISA Institute at Rutgers/Busch Campus, 9 a.m.
October 29 Atlantic City at Fall Workshop – Location and time/afternoon TBA
December 3
January 28th
February 25 (Statewide GSCS General Membership Evening Meeting 7 pm Central to North Location/TBA)
March 25 (Statewide GSCS General Membership Evening Meeting 7 pm Central to Southern Location/TBA)
April 29
May 27 Annual Meeting Forsgate – date and location to be confirmed.
June – no meeting held
July – 2nd or 3rd Wednesday of the month in the morning – date to be confirmed
October 7th 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.
Make Checks Payable $15.00 to RIISA.
Registration is limited.
Send to: Garden State Coalition of Schools, c/o Joanne D'Angelo
74 Springcress Dr, Delran, N.J. 08075
Name___________________________________________________
Title & Affiliation___________________________________________
Address_________________________________________________
Phone___________________________________________________
e-mail___________________________________________________
( ) Check enclosed
( ) Cash or check accepted at registration desk the day of the forum
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.
For more information, contact:
Lynne Strickland, Garden State Coalition of Schools
609-394-2828 Email gscs2000@gmail.com
Brenda Considine, Coalition for Special Education Funding Reform
609-466-0694 Email consid@comcast.net
Charity A. Leonhardt, Ed.M. Rutgers Institute for Improving Student Achievement
732 932-7496 Ext. 8120 Email Charitya@rci.rutgers.edu