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| March 31, 2010 • Vol. XXXIII • No. 31 |
 Update: April 5 is Deadline for Wage Freeze Incentive Gov Offers Incentive for School Salary Freezes Department of Education Releases Spending Guide State Revenues: Boom or Gloom? New Jersey Still Outperforms Most on National Reading Test, But Progress is Flat New Jersey Gets $66.7 Million Federal Grant for Low Achieving Schools Keansburg Superintendent Settles Severance Dispute Race to the Top Grants Go to Just Two States NJSBA Launches Online Resources for School Budgets, Elections Learn@Lunch Conducts Online Program on the Budget School Choice Bill Passes Assembly Status Report on NJSBA Building Renovation Click here for a pdf version of this issue of School Board Notes |
Web Extra Update: April 5 is Deadline for Wage Freeze Incentive In a letter sent to the NJSBA and NJEA on Wednesday, Gov. Chris Christie urged school districts and local education associations to agree to a one-year salary freeze for employees by April 5, the deadline for submission of school budgets to county clerks. |
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| Gov Offers Incentive for School Salary Freezes Gov. Chris Christie said he plans to offer more state aid to school districts whose teachers agree to a wage freeze for the 2011 fiscal year, according to AP news reports on March 30. |
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| Department of Education Releases Spending Guide The average cost to educate a New Jersey student was $13,835 in 2009-2010 – a 4.3 percent increase from the previous year – according to the 2010 Comparative Spending Guide released last week. |
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| Web Extra State Revenues: Boom or Gloom? The state Legislature has begun deliberation over Governor Christie’s proposed 2010-2011 state budget. |
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| New Jersey Still Outperforms Most on National Reading Test, But Progress is Flat New Jersey students continued to score at the top of national rankings of students in the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading test, but the tests showed that scores have not improved appreciably. |
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| New Jersey Gets $66.7 Million Federal Grant for Low Achieving Schools New Jersey has been awarded $66.7 million from the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDE) School Improvement Grants program to help districts enact changes in the state’s lowest performing schools. |
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| Keansburg Superintendent Settles Severance Dispute The state Department of Education reached a settlement nullifying a $556,290 severance payment to Barbara Trzeszkowski, former Keansburg superintendent, according to a statement released by Gov. Chris Christie’s office on Friday. |
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| Race to the Top Grants Go to Just Two States The first round of the federal Race to the Top grants were awarded to just two states this week – Delaware and Tennessee – as 14 other states that were finalists received none of the stimulus education funding. |
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| NJSBA Launches Online Resources for School Budgets, Elections NJSBA has launched two special sections on its Web site: One is a resource section to help school boards navigate through the state’s 2010 budget crisis, and another page promotes the Annual School Election in the community. |
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| Learn@Lunch Conducts Online Program on the Budget NJSBA staff members discussed Gov. Christie’s proposed budget and what it means to school districts in a Learn@Lunch online program on March 24. |
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| Workshop 2010 Update NJSBA is busy putting the final touches on its plans for Workshop 2010 to be held in Somerset on Oct. 19 and 20. |
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| School Choice Bill Passes Assembly On March 22 the State Assembly passed A-355 by a 75-0 vote. |
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| Status Report on NJSBA Building Renovation Renovation work on NJSBA’s headquarters building at 413 W. State St. is proceeding on-time and under-budget, according to Francis Pullo, NJSBA director of Finance and Operational Services. |
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