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| April 25, 2007 • Vol. XXX • No. 35 |
 NJSBA Supports Boards in Mandates Complaint Assembly Ed Committee to Discuss NCLB on April 30—WEB EXTRA New ‘Accountability Law’ Requires More Training School Leader Awards: New Deadline, May 29 N.J. Is Partner in Algebra Movement Reserve Your District’s Booth Space Preview: Annual Delegate Assembly, May 19 Legislative Committee Openings Ethics Disclosure Filing Deadline: April 30 Ferguson Reintroduces Special Education Bill Study Shows High Expectations in Urban Districts Lehigh’s Education Law Conference Click here for a pdf version of this issue of School Board Notes |
NJSBA Supports Boards in Mandates Complaint NJSBA filed a brief as amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) on April 19 in a complaint challenging a recent special education regulation as an unfunded state mandate. |
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| WEB EXTRA Assembly Ed Committee to Discuss NCLB on April 30 The state Assembly Education Committee is scheduled Monday to listen to testimony about the implementation and impact of the federal No Child Left Behind Act on New Jersey schools. |
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| New ‘Accountability Law’ Requires More Training NJSBA has received many inquiries regarding the state’s added training requirements under the new accountability law, A-5. |
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| School Leader Awards: New Deadline, May 29 Every year, school districts throughout New Jersey enter their most impressive academic programs into NJSBA’s School Leader contest. |
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| N.J. Is Partner in Algebra Movement New Jersey has joined a partnership of nine states in the American Diploma Project Secondary Math Partnership to administer an exam with common standards for Algebra II students, beginning in May 2008. |
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| Update: Budget Approvals Voters approved 78.3 percent of the proposed school budgets during the April 17 school elections – marking a sharp increase over last year’s 52 percent approval rate. |
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| Reserve Your District’s Booth Space Showcase your district’s innovative and creative programs at Workshop 2007 in Atlantic City. |
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| SPECIAL FEATURE May Planner For Board Members |
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| Preview: Annual Delegate Assembly, May 19 NJSBA reminds all school boards that decisions made by each Delegate Assembly are followed by action that often results in the introduction of legislation, the stopping of undesirable legislation, or new State Board of Education policies. Legislative Committee Openings Ethics Disclosure Filing Deadline: April 30 |
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| Ferguson Reintroduces Special Education Bill U.S. Rep. Michael Ferguson (R-NJ) and a bi-partisan group of lawmakers have introduced a proposal that would boost federal special education funding to more than $30 billion by 2016, and ensure that Washington meets its unfulfilled commitment to help states pay for special education. |
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| Study Shows High Expectations in Urban Districts A majority of urban teachers and building administrators hold high expectations for students, according to a national survey of urban school climate conducted by the National School Boards Association’s Council of Urban Boards of Education. |
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| Lehigh’s Education Law Conference Lehigh University will sponsor its 35th Annual Education Law Conference from 8:30 a.m. to 3:50 p.m. Friday, May 11. |
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