TRENTON, N.J. – Facing more than $105 million in state aid cuts under Gov. Phil Murphy’s budget proposal, superintendents and school officials across New Jersey are supporting increased state aid under Assembly Republican Leader John DiMaio’s plan to fully fund schools and cut property taxes. “Fairly funding schools means...
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TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia spoke in defense of protecting safe spaces for females and hard-won advances in girls-only sports at the Roxbury Board of Education meeting Monday. The Board was considering whether to abolish its transgender student policy, which allowed males who identify as females to participate...
TRENTON, N.J. – There’s nothing left to cut, Assemblyman Alex Sauickie told the Assembly during its voting session Monday about the Jackson Township School District. Even the state-appointed, district-paid school monitor agrees. Forced to borrow $10 million from the state to fill its budget gaps last year, Jackson is...
TRENTON, N.J. – Districts that have had state aid cut under the school funding formula known as S2 may have some of that aid restored under a bill that passed the Assembly Monday. The legislation (A4161) appropriates $71.4 million to establish a stabilized school budget aid grant program. The...
TRENTON, N.J. – State aid cuts enacted under the school funding formula known as S2 have devastated dozens of districts across the state, Assemblymen Alex Sauickie and Paul Kanitra say. A bill they introduced Monday aims to restore that aid by appropriating $210.1 million to disburse to schools that previously...
TRENTON, N.J. – Activists who approve the normalization of extremist views in classrooms to New Jersey’s 1.4 million schoolchildren must be kept off the state Board of Education, Assemblymen Greg McGuckin and Paul Kanitra say. They oppose Gov. Phil Murphy’s plan to stuff the state Board of Education with...
TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblywoman Aura Dunn recently visited a local pediatrician whose work with a national nonprofit fosters strong family bonds and healthy child brain development. Dunn saw firsthand the success of the Reach Out and Read program with Rosario Zambrano, MD, owner and president of Pediatrics of Morristown....
TRENTON, N.J. – A bill that would strengthen cybersecurity in colleges and universities, sponsored by Assemblymen Greg McGuckin and Paul Kanitra, passed the Assembly Monday. Cyberattacks targeting schools are on the rise. The real-life implications were felt in January when an attack compromised essential network systems and forced the...
TRENTON, N.J. – Educators should spend their time planning and teaching, not filling out endless piles of tedious paperwork. To that end, the Assembly on Monday passed a bill that will create the New Jersey Educator Evaluation Review Task Force. Its purpose will be to study and suggest changes to...
TRENTON, N.J. – Slaves live in New Jersey today. They are men, women and children; some are foreign-born, promised factory or domestic work and a better life in America. Some are here already, lured away from unhappy situations, real or imagined, with promises of something better. But for them, there...