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August 18, 2005 • Vol. XXIX • No. 4

No Child Left Behind Results Released

Rep. Holt Holds Conference on Dangers of Pesticide Use

NJSBA Shares Positions with Gubernatorial Candidates

NJSBA and NJ League of Municipalities Holds Summit on Gang and Youth Violence

A Victory for Abbott Planning

U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Education Budget

School Election Survey Available on NJSBA Web Site

NJSBA Executive Committee Meeting Notice

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No Child Left Behind Results Released
More schools in need of improvement
The New Jersey Department of Education released preliminary results last week of the status of the state’s schools in making adequate yearly progress for 2004-05 under the No Child Left Behind Act requirements. The report identifies 851 schools, or 35.5 percent of the state’s 2,398 public and charter schools, as having not made adequate yearly progress, compared with 585 schools in the previous year. Get the full story.

Rep. Holt Holds Conference on Dangers of Pesticide Use
Prompted by the release of a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the dangers of pesticide and other chemical exposure among children and school employees, U.S. Representative Rush Holt held a press conference earlier this month at the Lawrenceville Elementary School to discuss the School Environment Protection Act, a bill he introduced to establish federal restrictions on pesticide use at or near schools. Get the full story.

NJSBA Shares Positions with Gubernatorial Candidates
NJSBA this month shared its positions on major education issues with the gubernatorial candidates through a paper, Challenges Facing the Public Schools: A Statement of Beliefs. Get the full story.

NJSBA and NJ League of Municipalities Holds Summit on Gang and Youth Violence
The New Jersey School Boards Association has teamed with the New Jersey State League of Municipalities to present the Mayors’ Summit on Preventing Gangs and Youth Violence on September 14. Get the full story.

A Victory for Abbott Planning
A New Jersey Superior Court judge has recently ruled that the state has to have a permanent plan in place within 45 days to manage the nearly $15 million designated in the annual state budget for the 31 poorest school districts in New Jersey. See NJSBA’s letter of recommendations to Assistant Commissioner Gordon MacInnes. Get the full story.

U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Education Budget
The U.S. House and Senate were both in session through the month of July, taking only a few weeks recess in August to craft a federal budget for 2006. Get the full story.

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