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FYI (Tuesday Edition)
I wanted to forward the following E-mailnet from Lynne. It was discouraging to be in
Lynne does not give herself any credit, but she deserves ample amounts for fighting the good fight on A99/S1701 right up until the final vote. We lost this skirmish, but with her leadership and help from all of you, and all of your contacts, we will win this funding war.
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From: GardenState CoalitionofSchools
Sent:
Subject: EMAILNET
GARDEN STATE COALITION OF SCHOOLS/GSCS
EMAILNET
Dr. Walter Mahler, President Lynne Strickland, Executive Director
Betsy Ginsburg, Parent Network Representative/GSPN
Phone 609 394 2828 Fax 609 396 7620 Website ‘www.gscschools.org’ email ‘gscs@ebnet.org’
GSCS Quick Facts:
· Next Board of Trustees Meeting is July 14, Wednesday,
· Special Thanks: GSCS is so very fortunate to have 1) Betsy Ginsburg, who – among other things such as on-going parent network communications - joined GSCS Executive Director in Trenton last Thursday on the last day of the legislative session re: the Appropriations Act and the A99 vote. Betsy has been serving tirelessly as GSCS Parent Network Representative in the absence of … 2) Candace Mueller who has rejoined the working world (but still where her heart is in child advocacy, as Special Assistant/Education Liaison to the Deputy Commissioner of Human Services. Candace was recognized and lauded by many at the GSCS Annual Meeting for her devoted and very effective advocacy for children via GSCS’ shared goals. Best wishes from all of us Candace.
- Re: A99/S1701 - Many have asked: opening a new school building, as well as enrollment growth, SGLA's/cap waivers are still in effect under this new school funding legislation. The earlier version of A99/S1701 had called to move the new building opening from the list of allowable cap waivers, but GSCS advocacy, coupled with Senator Barbara Buono's efforts, helped lead to an amendment that withdrew new school opening costs from the list of exclusions.
· A99/S1701 – the school reduction spending legislation was ‘tie-barred’ (e.g., if one bill were to fail, or not go into effect, all the bills in a group would go down) to the Millionaire’s Tax/A100, as well as the Municipal Spending legislation/A98 and the Constitutional Convention Task Force bill/A97. The Governor will not veto any one of these bills, because then none of them can go into effect. In fact, because the statehouse was instrumental in using the ‘tie-bar’ method to group the bills together, the administration made it clear that it would not consider a retreat on any of these programs.
· It is important to continue to express your concerns re: A99/S1701 this ‘bad for education & ineffective for property tax reform’ legislation, however - early and often - to your legislators, the Governor, and to your newspapers – state and local.
· According to a number of legislators last week, meeting the full funding for Extraordinary Aid for Special Education is not dead. GSCS intends to keep up the pressure on legislators to pass legislation on that first thing this fall.
GSCS FYI
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