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March 12, 2008 • Vol. XXXI • No. 29

Committee Recommends Changes to Delegate Assembly Legislators Discuss Moving School Elections Bill Would Require Public Comment at Board Meetings Solar Power Is Popular in School Construction Questions Listening to Middle Schoolers Study: Alternate Route Teaching Benefits Districts, Needs Improvement Deadline Extended for Workshop Proposals NJSBA Resolutions Subcommittee to Meet Education by the Numbers Calendar Click here for a pdf version of this issue of School Board Notes	Committee Recommends Changes to Delegate Assembly Holding NJSBA’s Delegate Assembly once a year and adding an advocacy session are just two of the recommended changes in NJSBA governance that school board members will decide in May.

	Legislators Discuss Moving School Elections At last week’s Senate Education Committee, lawmakers discussed various proposals designed to increase voter turnout and decrease the costs of holding school elections. Bill Would Require Public Comment at Board Meetings Legislation that would require boards of education to set aside a portion of every meeting for public comment was approved by the Senate Education Committee last week.

	Solar Power Is Popular in School Construction Questions Eight school districts asked voters to approve more than $151.6 million in school construction on Tuesday.

	Listening to Middle Schoolers Cape May was one of the first county school boards associations to adopt the Eighth Grade Dialogue program.

	Study: Alternate Route Teaching Benefits Districts, Needs Improvement A study released last week found New Jersey’s alternate route to teacher certification has helped prevent teacher shortages and has diversified the profession—but is still in need of improvement.

	Deadline Extended for Workshop Proposals Due to numerous requests, NJSBA has extended the deadline to Friday, March 28 for school board members and district staff to submit proposals to give a training presentation at Workshop 2008.

	NJSBA Resolutions Subcommittee to Meet In accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act, notice is provided of a meeting of the NJSBA Resolutions Subcommittee.

	Education by the Numbers Statistics on Administrative Spending

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