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| January 16, 2008 • Vol. XXXI • No. 21 |
 It’s Official: Governor Signs School Funding Bill NJSBA Sponsors Funding Programs Governor Signs Burden of Proof Bill Legislature Passes Bills in Final Days of Session State Might Keep Alternative Graduation Assessment State Board of Education Honors Local Boards Salary Guide Improvements Reported after Training PR Forum Prepares Schools for Budget Season ACES: There’s Power in Numbers NJSBA Board of Directors Highlights Click here for a pdf version of this issue of School Board Notes |
It’s Official: Governor Signs School Funding Bill Gov. Jon Corzine on Sunday signed into law the School Funding Reform Act of 2008, the new state funding formula for schools. |
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| NJSBA Sponsors Funding Programs NJSBA will sponsor three free presentations on New Jersey’s new school-funding formula. |
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| Governor Signs Burden of Proof Bill Gov. Jon Corzine on Monday signed a bill that places the burden of proof on school districts involved in special-education due-process hearings. |
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| Legislature Passes Bills in Final Days of Session On Jan. 8, the last day of New Jersey’s 212th Legislature—when lawmakers pushed to have their bills passed before the new two-year legislative session begins—more than 200 bills were passed and sent to the governor. |
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| State Might Keep Alternative Graduation Assessment Rather than eliminate the Special Review Assessment, which is used as an alternative to the state’s high school graduation exam, the state should strengthen the administration and scoring of the process, Commissioner of Education Lucille E. Davy recommended to the state Board of Education Jan. 9. |
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| State Board of Education Honors Local Boards The State Board of Education passed a resolution at its Jan. 9 meeting recognizing the contributions that New Jersey’s local boards of education have made in contributing to the academic success of the state’s 1.4 million public school students. |
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| Salary Guide Improvements Reported after Training Recent rounds of bargaining have resulted in a growing number of school boards attaining improvements in teachers’ salary guides. PR Forum Prepares Schools for Budget Season |
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| ACES: There’s Power in Numbers ACES—the energy purchasing program of NJSBA, the New Jersey Association of School Administrators and the New Jersey Association of School Business Officials—is preparing for another round of bids for natural gas service. |
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| NJSBA Board of Directors Highlights NJSBA’s Board of Directors met on Friday, Jan. 11, in the Robert Wood Johnson Conference Center, Mercerville. |
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