School Board Notes

On Thursday, Jan. 25, the first committee meetings of the 2024-2025 legislative session took place at the State House. Among those that met was the Senate Education Committee, which advanced five bills.

Gov. Phil Murphy recently announced his intention to nominate Kevin Dehmer to serve as the next commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education.

You can now watch a new episode of School Leader Up Close, the video companion feature to School Leader, the quarterly magazine of the New Jersey School Boards Association.

The School Ethics Commission held its last regularly scheduled meeting of the year Dec. 19, 2023.

Essex County Vocational Technical Schools is among 19 awardees that were notified they would receive funds through the first-ever Perkins Innovation and Modernization, Career Connected High Schools grant program.

The four grant awards will expand opportunities for students to earn college credits from New Jersey institutions of higher education while they are attending high school.

The Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, recently announced a new resource that schools can use to communicate with parents and families about the importance of safe firearm storage.

School districts can provide a crucial service to students by working with the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to promote the filing of vital applications by establishing a data-sharing agreement.

Public school districts and governing bodies are invited to apply for funding to offset costs associated with conducting feasibility studies that support the creation of meaningful and implementable plans to form or expand regional school districts.

The implementation grants support costs associated with the implementation of shared services, consolidation, and school feasibility studies.

Louis Charles John McCall, 64, of Wenonah and Surf City, New Jersey, died suddenly on Jan. 22, 2024. He served on the Wenonah Board of Education in Gloucester County for more than 12 years.