Jennie Lamon, NJPSA Assistant Director of Government Relations The New Jersey Statehouse is bustling, as committees have resumed their full schedules, the Legislature is wrangling with the state budget, and public groups are once […]
State House Wrap-Up Week of May 16, 2022
The Assembly Education Committee, and more than a dozen other Legislative Committees, convened at the Statehouse to hear and move bills on Thursday, May 19th. Following are measures affecting New Jersey school districts that […]
State House Wrap-Up Week of May 9, 2022: Senate Education Committee Meeting
The Senate Education Committee met on Monday, May 9th. This is the first time the Legislature has convened for a non-budget related committee meeting since early March. The lengthy and contentious Senate Education meeting […]
NJ State Board of Education May Monthly Meeting – Wrap-Up
The majority of the May monthly meeting of the NJ State Board of Education was spent discussing a topic that was not even on the agenda – the recent revisions to New Jersey’s health […]
State Board of Education April 2022 Meeting Wrap Up
The New Jersey State Board of Education met on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. The State Board passed three Resolutions and received testimony from the New Jersey Department of Education on school performance reports, graduation […]
Update from the NJ Statehouse Week of March 7th, 2022 What happened in Education Policy Under the Golden Dome this Week?
-Jennie Lamon, Assistant Director of Government Relations Both Houses of the Legislature held Education Committee meetings this week. The Senate Education Committee met on Monday, March 7th, and the Assembly Education Committee convened […]
Update from the NJ Statehouse Week of February 14th, 2022 What happened in Education Policy Under the Golden Dome this Week?
Both the Senate and General Assembly held voting sessions on Monday. The Assembly only took up one bill, a measure that would extend the time Governor Phil Murphy has to deliver the gubernatorial budget […]
Update from the NJ Statehouse Week of February 7th, 2022 What happened in Education Policy Under the Golden Dome this Week?
The Assembly Education Committee met on Monday, February 7th for their first meeting of the new session. The Assembly Education Committee has three new members, all newly elected legislators: Assemblywoman Sadaf F. Jaffer is […]
Update from the NJ Statehouse Week of January 31st What Happened in Education Policy Under the Golden Dome This Week?
The 220th New Jersey Legislature is underway. Senate Committees met in person at the Statehouse this week, while the General Assembly continues to conduct remote hearings. Newly appointed Chairman of the Senate Education […]
Update from the NJ Statehouse for the Week of January 17, 2022
-Jennie Lamon, NJPSA Government Relations – Assistant Director jlamon@njpsa.org On Tuesday, January 18th, Governor Murphy Delivered his second Inaugural Address. In his address, the Governor spoke of not only slowing property tax growth, […]