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Legislative Update: Assembly Committees Return from Summer Break9/24/24

NEW JERSEY

NorthJersey.com

NJ school districts scramble to spend last of COVID aid

With a looming deadline of Sept. 30 to use — or lose — a combined $2.7 billion in COVID relief aid, 20 NJ districts have applied for extensions.

NJ Spotlight

Threat assessment teams required in NJ schools but impact hard to measure

One year after law was enacted, there’s little indication of how it’s working.

New Jersey Monitor

Lawmakers debate automatic tickets for drivers who blow by stopped school buses

The bill would allow automated ticketing for motorists who drive past stopped school buses as children board or disembark.

New Jersey Globe

Comptroller review finds towns, school districts don’t properly file union contracts

New Jersey’s comptroller found more than half of school districts and upward of a quarter of municipalities failed to properly submit union contracts to state authorities, violating transparency laws.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Woodbury has implemented a cell phone ban at its junior-senior high school

The South Jersey school system joins a growing number of schools nationwide that are trying to limit cell phone use while students are in school.

NATIONAL

Education Week

Why Schools Are Getting a Jump on Their Smartwatch Policies

A small but growing number of schools are adding smartwatches to their cellphone policies

Video: ‘People Can Only Hear When They’re Heard’: Navigating Divisive Conversations (Opinion)

An expert advises educators on how to use curiosity to navigate divisive conversations.

Gun Violence Takes a Toll. We Need More Support, Principals Tell Congress

School leaders made an emotional appeal for more funds to help schools recover from gun violence.

Students Are Sharing Sexually Explicit ‘Deepfakes.’ Are Schools Prepared?

A new report explores tech-powered sexual harassment in schools

Washington Post

Why schools are ripping up playgrounds across the U.S. (msn.com)

The Trust for Public Land teamed up with local partners to revamp the Bethune schoolyard in Philadelphia, transforming it from nearly an acre of asphalt to a community space.

USA Today

How shootings upend schools – even where there’s no gunfire

The superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools in Ashburn, Virginia, is one of many school district leaders who scrambled to respond to local threats in the wake of a school shooting in Georgia that left two students and two teachers dead.