School Construction

9-27-09 Education News of Note

8-22-08 School Construction Guidelines Released

6-25-08 'State to borrow 3.9B for school construction'

6-24-08 State Budget passed yesterday, as did the School Construction, Pension Reform, and Affordable Housing bills

6-23-08 A2873-S1457 School Construction bills up for vote today, along with State Budget FY09

6-20-08 State Budget stalls, school construction is one obstacle

6-18-08 School Construction bill is before Senate Budget & Approps Comm tomorrow - GSCS is tracking the issue

8-8-07 Editorial 'School [construction] program needs more than a facelift'

8-7-07 'State rebuilds school construction program'

School Construction: Third Report to Governor by Interagency Working Group

9-15-06 Star Ledger & AP - 3.25B suggested for school construction

9-15-06 Star Ledger - 3.25B suggested for school construction

August 2006 District Resolution for School Construction Aid

School Construction Symposium July 27, 2006 for Regular Operating Districs [Non Abbotts]

10-14-05 EMAILNET Parent question for Gubernatorial Candidates aired on 101.5 debate, SCC funds, Next Board meeting, press briefing notes

9-29-05 EMAILNET School Construction Issues

7-29-05 EMAILNET

3-15-06 Report to Gov re school construction Interagency WorkingGroup

3-15-06 NY Times 'Crisis at School Agency Reflects Missteps'

3-10-06 New Management at School Construction Corp

3-8-06 Gannet Press on Buildling Our Children's Future coalition

3-4-06 Star Ledger SCC Agency chief puts burden on districts

3-4-06 Gannett - SCC chief says Abbott districts may have to 'ante up'

List - Regular Operating Districts waiting State Share Payments confirmation for school construction

GSCS 10-3-05 School Construction Testimony before the Joint Comm. on Public Schools

Legislators Assail School Building Agency at Hearing

Dept Ed Directive 7-6-05: School Construction Sec 15 Grant Funding for more than 450 districts questionable

2-14-06 TrentonTimes Letter to the Editor on school construction

2-9-06 Star Ledger School agency reformers discuss goals, problems

1-15-06 The Record 2 Sunday Articles anticipating top issues confronting the Corzine administration

12-21-05 Inspector General's Report on the School Construction Corporation

12-20-05 Star Ledger on NJ Supreme Court decision on stalled school construction

12-20-05 The Record 'Where Will the Bills End?' NJ Supreme Court releases its opinion on stalled school construction program.

12-15-05 Star Ledger School bond plans get resounding 'no'

11-13-05 Star Ledger Sunday front page 'Blueprint for 6 Billion Dollar Boondagle

9-29-05 Star Ledger 'NJ in hole for 53M after vote on school funds promised for construction

EMAILNET 6-10-05 School Construction Funding Heads Up!

Tuesday's School Construction Bond Referenda: Some facts

School Construction aid entitlements Abbott (pdf)

School Construction aid entitlements 55% and over Districts (pdf)

School construction aid entitlement districts 40% to 55% (pdf)

Debt Service v State Share 0 to 40 Districts, before and after Ch. 72 PL2000 law(pdf)

School Construction Sec 15 Grant Funding in Question - DOE Directive 7-6-05

school Construction DOE Directive 7-6-05

10-14-05 EMAILNET Parent question for Gubernatorial Candidates aired on 101.5 debate, SCC funds, Next Board meeting, press briefing notes

GARDEN STATE COALITION OF SCHOOLS/GSCS

'Public Support for Public Education'

EMAILNET 10-14-05

Website: www.gscschools.org Email: gscs2000@gmail.com

Quick Facts:

Little Silver school district parents panel held on S1701 on Tuesday, October 11, 7:30 p.m. at the Markham School. On the panel: GSCS Parent Network Representative Kim Newsome, Executive Director Lynne Strickland, GSCS President-Elect Marjorie Heller & Little Silver Superintendent, Red Bank Regional Superintendent, Ed Westervelt. District 12 representatives and those running for those seats in the Assembly were also invited; Senator Ellen Karcher also had a scheduling conflict and will be meeting with the Little Silver PTA in November; Assemblymen Morgan and Panter also had a scheduling conflict & were represented by their local district office chief of staff Kerrie Danskin; 12 th district Assembly contender Declan O’Scanlon was available & sat on the panel.

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GSCS Board of Trustees: Next Board Meeting October 19, 4 p.m. East Brunswick.

Representatives of the Corzine and Forrester campaigns have been invited to present on the candidates’ platform for education & property taxes.

Take advantage of this opportunity to hear directly from campaign policy staff. All members are welcome to GSCS board of Trustees meeting. We do ask that you inform GSCS of your intention to attend as soon as possible at gscs2000@gmail.com . Thank you.

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GSCS continues to work hard on school construction funding issues...our questions have resulted in uncovering some additional monies in unused grant agreement funds [where districts did not get a local share commitment] : The SCC is 'unraveling' the amount ... stay tuned....

GSCS PARENTS question Forrester and Corzine on 101.5 Debate program

Hear the candidate’s response via the web:

New Jersey radio station 101.5 has uploaded the Forrester-Corzine gubernatorial debate on their website. See: http://www.nj1015.com/ the debate is under “Features” on the homepage.

GSCS parent ‘Sarah from Fair Haven’ posed a question on fair funding and S1701which is in Part 2 at the 4 minute mark on the media player of the debate program.

GSCS participated in the Reock Ad Hoc School Finance Discussion Group press briefing that focused on updating school funding, state aid data and school construction facts. The event was well attended by the press and legislative staffers. See the GSCS website www.gscschools.org under ‘school funding and data’ section on the homepage side-banner for more information.