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April 28, 2010 • Vol. XXXIII • No. 35

Defeated Budget Review Process: NJSBA Offers Resources What happens when the budget is defeated? Annual School Budget Election Results by County Christie to Unveil Toolkit Soon $500 Million in New Bonds OK’d for School Construction Mandated Training Programs to Follow Delegate Assembly Educational Leadership Foundation to Host Conference NJSBA Executive Committee to Meet NJSBA Creates Annual Ethics Training Form School, Municipal Officials Discuss: What Next? Education by the Numbers Calendar Click here for a pdf version of this issue of School Board Notes	Defeated Budget Review Process: NJSBA Offers Resources For the first time in 34 years, a majority of the state’s local boards of education and municipal governing bodies are participating in the complex and potentially divisive review of defeated school budgets. What happens when the budget is defeated? Defeated school budgets are reviewed by the municipal governing body in consultation with the board of education. Annual School Budget Election Results by County

	Christie to Unveil Toolkit Soon The Christie Administration will unveil legislation next week to implement its long-awaited “toolkit” aimed at helping local school board control costs, Commissioner of Education Bret Schundler told the Assembly Budget Committee on Monday.

	$500 Million in New Bonds OK’d for School Construction School construction projects in New Jersey will soon begin to receive funding from the sale of $500 million in New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) bonds on April 15.

	Mandated Training Programs to Follow Delegate Assembly The Governance II, III and IV programs will be held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. May 15 (registration at 12:30 p.m.) at the Wyndham Princeton Forrestal Hotel & Conference Center in Plainsboro, following NJSBA’s Delegate Assembly. Educational Leadership Foundation to Host Conference The Educational Leadership Foundation of NJ (ELFNJ), in partnership with the New Jersey School Boards Association and the New Jersey Association of School Administrators (NJASA), is presenting a Leadership Conference at the NJASA/NJSBA Spring Conference.

	NJSBA Executive Committee to Meet In accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act, notice is hereby provided of a meeting of NJSBA’s Executive Committee. NJSBA Creates Annual Ethics Training Form NJSBA has created a form to help New Jersey school boards document that they have met the annual requirement for ethics training.

	School, Municipal Officials Discuss: What Next? More than 600 school board members, municipal officials, school administrators and members of the press joined in the April 22 interactive conference call, “Your School Budget Has Been Defeated: What’s Next?”

	Education by the Numbers

	Calendar

	Training Programs and Resources The Educational Leadership Foundation Leadership Conference The State of NJ's Schools: NJSBA's Town Hall Meeting The Annual Delegate Assembly Browse NJSBA’s Bookstore for the latest publications on school governance Board Member Academy Programs Beautiful, affordable walnut and brass plaques help say "thank you" for a job well done!

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