By Jennifer Keyes-Maloney The Governor approved legislation, P.L.2015, c.109 (A-4608 / S-3055 (Diegnan / Ruiz)) August 28 that will double the number of arbitrators available to work on teacher tenure cases. The new […]
By Jennifer Keyes-Maloney The Governor approved legislation, P.L.2015, c.109 (A-4608 / S-3055 (Diegnan / Ruiz)) August 28 that will double the number of arbitrators available to work on teacher tenure cases. The new […]
By Jennifer Keyes-Maloney The New Jersey State Board of Education at their September meeting, received an impromptu presentation by the Department of Education on soon to be released SAT / ACT data. The Board […]
Year four of the seven year phase in of the pension contribution – from 6/5% to 7.5% began on July 1st. The TPAF contribution rate is now 7.06% (up from 6.92%). Each July 1st […]
Governor Chris Christie conditionally vetoed a number of measures related to students and schools August 10. The Legislature now has the opportunity to review the changes wrought by the conditional veto and agree with […]
The Governor vetoed legislation, S-3100/A-4605 (Gordon, Greenstein/Wimberly, Lagana, Singleton, Mazzeo), which would have required the State to make quarterly pension contributions on August 1, November 1, February 1 and May of each year, on […]
The Governor signed legislation, S-1760/A-4212 (Allen, Ruiz, Turner/Vainieri Huttle, Angelini, Jasey), August 10 which recognizes American Sign Language as a world language for meeting high school graduation requirements. NJPSA testified on the new law […]
Governor Chris Christie approved legislation, S-2484/A-3845 (Codey, Turner/Jasey, Benson, Vainieri Huttle, McKeon), August 10 which would require the Department of Education (NJDOE) to conduct a study on options and benefits of instituting later school […]
Acting Governor Kim Guadagno conditionally vetoed legislation, S2032 / A-3440 (Codey, Turner / Diegnan, Eustace), which would have required the State Board of Education to develop rigorous computer science curriculum guidelines and school districts […]
Pension Trustees of three public employee retirement funds filed a motion last week in Superior Court seeking a contract judgment for unpaid pension debt against the State – in essence asking that the system […]
The New Jersey Supreme Court announced July 30 that it will hear arguments on whether the State acted improperly in suspending the annual retiree cost-of-living adjustments (COLA). The suspension was part of changes wrought […]