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| May 14, 2008 • Vol. XXXI • No. 38 |
 Assembly Panel Moves November Vote, Administrative Cuts An Assault on School Board Governance Bill Would Expand the Scope of Negotiations Bill Would Eliminate Year Notice for Superintendent Senate Committee OKs Tax Credit Vouchers NJSBA Seeks Regulation Changes Advanced Board Member Training Deadline Extended for 2007-2008 NJSBA Insurance Group Director to Retire School Leader Features Section for New Board Members NJSBA Executive Committee to Meet Click here for a pdf version of this issue of School Board Notes |
Assembly Panel Moves November Vote, Administrative Cuts An Assembly committee on Monday approved bills that would move school board member elections to November and establish 10-percent cuts to some districts’ administrative costs. |
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| An Assault on School Board Governance An assault on local school governance is occurring in New Jersey. It’s an issue that NJSBA’s leadership takes very seriously. |
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| Bill Would Expand the Scope of Negotiations NJSBA is staunchly opposing a bill that would drastically expand the scope of negotiations to include all matters regarding the terms and conditions of public employment that are not specifically exempt from collective bargaining by state law. Bill Would Eliminate Year Notice for Superintendent Senate Committee OKs Tax Credit Vouchers |
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| NJSBA Seeks Regulation Changes NJSBA officials on Monday presented a list of concerns to Education Commissioner Lucille E. Davy about proposed regulations that would affect school board training, define “unreasonable expenditures,” orchestrate plans for regionalizing schools, and give sweeping authority to the executive county school superintendents. |
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| Web Extra: Advanced Board Member Training Deadline Extended for 2007-2008 NJSBA has good news for the experienced board members who have not taken their mandated training. |
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| NJSBA Insurance Group Director to Retire Alan Thornton, a long time advocate of insurance “pooling” for New Jersey’s public schools, has announced his retirement as director of the New Jersey School Boards Association Insurance Group (NJSBAIG). |
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| School Leader Features Section for New Board Members Newly elected school board members are probably feeling exhilarated—and perhaps somewhat overwhelmed. |
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| Decades of Service Honoring longtime board members was one of the programs on the agenda of the Sussex County School Boards Association meeting on May 9. |
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| NJSBA Executive Committee to Meet In accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act, notice is hereby provided of a special meeting of NJSBA’s Executive Committee. |
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