NJASA's eNewsletter Volume 17| March 7, 2018
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Senate Advances Efforts to Eliminate the Superintendent Salary Caps
S-692 - which prohibits the NJDOE from regulating the maximum salary amount a school district may pay its superintendent of schools - passed the full Senate on February 26th by a vote of Yes - 24; No - 15; and Not Voting - 1. 

The bill sponsors are Senate Education Committee Chair Senator M. Teresa Ruiz , D, 29 - Essex, and Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee Chair Senator Paul Sarlo , D, 36 - Bergen and Passaic. Co-Sponsors of the legislation are Senator Nia H. Gill, Esq. , D, 34 - Essex and Passaic and Senator Brian P. Stack , D, 33 - Hudson.

The bill heads to the Assembly Education Committee for consideration.
Senate President Sweeney Proposes Landmark $758m School Funding Reform Underwritten by Recapturing Federal Corporate Windfall

Yesterday, Senate President Sweeney unveiled a landmark $758 million school funding overhaul that would increase aid to underfunded districts, expand preschool programs and fully fund the state share of special education as part of an overall plan to shift responsibility for special education to the state level.
 
The Sweeney plan ... would provide significant property tax relief by recapturing just one sixth of the massive Republican federal corporate tax windfall that is being financed on the backs of taxpayers in New Jersey and other high-cost states, and it continues the shift of state aid from overfunded to underfunded districts. Read more :
Colleague Seeks Your Comments

Dr. James J. Lynch, Chief Education Officer, East Greenwich School District , Gloucester County, is looking for assistance in gathering some statewide data regarding conducting teacher observations. 

His questions are: " 1) Does your school district use either a part-time employee to assist in conducting teacher classroom observations? 2) Does your school district use a contractor or a consultant to assist in conducting teacher classroom observations?"

Please reply directly to Dr. Lynch via email or at 559 Kings Highway, Mickleton, NJ 08056
856-423-0412, ext. 1001.
Kathy Hurley , CEO,
Girls Thinking Global
Opens the 2018 Women's Leadership Conference - Fostering Women in Leadership - Real Women Leaders: Their Competencies & Their Stories

March 15-16, Forsgate Country Club
Monroe Township, NJ
Full Two-Day Conference Fee: $329One-Day Conference Fee: $175

Visit the Sites of the Holocaust
Former NJSBOE President and Commission Member on Holocaust/Genocide Education Maud Dahme invites you to join her from July 18 to August 2 to visit the sites of the Holocaust. Maud Dahme, who survived the Holocaust as a hidden child, will lead the tour. Partial scholarships are available to NJEA members. Email Maud Dahme for further information.
New Jersey Consortia for Excellence Through Equity Annual Recruitment Fair

23 School Districts Across South Jersey Committed to Diversity Staffing

Thursday, March 22, 2018, 4:30 -7:00 pm

Rowan University Technology Park, 107 Gilbreth Parkway, Suite 200 Mullica Hill, NJ

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