Jennie Lamon, NJPSA Assistant Director of Government Relations June has arrived and the school year is nearing an end. Meanwhile in Trenton, legislative activity, including budget negotiations, are ramping up. Historically, June is […]
State House Wrap-Up Week of May 23, 2022
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 […]
Legislation to Make Filing of FAFSA A High School Graduation Requirement Moves Forward
On Monday, March 14th, the Assembly Higher Education Committee considered A- 1181 (Jasey), legislation that would make the filing of the FAFSA a high school graduation requirement for all students beginning in the 2022-23 […]
NJ Schools Were Facing a Staffing Crisis Before COVID. Now, the Challenges Are Daunting
What if we have been looking at the staffing shortages in our schools all wrong? No substitutes? They’ll come back after COVID-19. No bus drivers? Adjustments to licensing requirements will increase the candidate pool. […]
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 […]
NJPSA Applauds Governor Murphy’s Strong Commitment to Public Education in State Budget Address
Governor Murphy’s Budget Address Supports Education Through Full State Aid Formula Payment, Preschool Expansion, Full Educator Pension Payment and School Infrastructure Funding for FY 2023 Budget This afternoon, Governor Phil Murphy gave the […]