| NJ | S2630 | Intro
25% | Establishes hiring preference for veterans for teaching positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2629 | Intro
25% | Directs Commissioner of Education to establish criteria and make recommendations on designation of school districts as SDA districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2634 | Intro
25% | Establishes Digital Divide Solutions Grant Program in DOE to assist public schools in purchase of connected devices and Internet access for students during periods of remote instruction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | SJR76 | Intro
25% | Designates the second Friday of December of each year as "Paraprofessional and School-Related Personnel (PSRPs) in Our Schools Day" in New Jersey to recognize the contributions of paraprofessionals and school-related personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2600 | Intro
25% | Extends eligibility for certain SDA grant funding to Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2529 | Intro
25% | Requires DOE to develop credential to introduce teachers to culturally responsive teaching practices, characteristics, and methods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2599 | Intro
25% | Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2528 | Intro
25% | Establishes Office of Community Schools; appropriates $10 million.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2616 | Intro
25% | Provides that any superintendent salary caps adopted by the commissioner will apply to charter school administrators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2549 | Intro
25% | Establishes "Student Mental Health Task Force."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2646 | Intro
25% | Requires school districts to provide training and coaching to certain teachers on student literacy and reading interventions; requires DOE to establish program for literacy coaches.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2609 | Intro
25% | Revises mileage limit for mandatory school transportation for students in preschool through grade four.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2644 | Intro
25% | Requires school districts to implement reading intervention program for students in certain grades as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in English Language Arts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2645 | Intro
25% | Requires school districts to screen certain students for reading deficiencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2608 | Intro
25% | Makes various changes in the charter school program in regard to student enrollment procedures, charter revocation, and monitoring of charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2636 | Intro
25% | Requires boards of education to adopt suicide prevention policies and DOE to establish model suicide prevention policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2647 | Intro
25% | Establishes Office of Learning Loss Czar.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2633 | Intro
25% | Requires studies on impact of COVID-19 pandemic on elementary and secondary school attendance and higher education enrollment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2612 | Intro
25% | Requires registration of private education lenders; establishes protections for private education borrowers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2631 | Intro
25% | Requires legislative approval of State Board of Education rules and regulations; repeals equity regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2602 | Intro
25% | Shortens certain school board members' terms when annual school election is moved from November to April; requires approval of both school board and municipal governing body in order to move school election from November to April.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2617 | Intro
25% | Directs Commissioner of Education to establish three-year pilot program to increase reading levels of certain students; appropriates $1 million.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NJ | S2509 | Intro
25% | Directs State Board of Education to authorize issuance of new endorsements in certain fields.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| NJ | S2480 | Intro
25% | Requires Commissioner of Education to prepare report on learning loss of students with developmental disabilities during COVID-19 public health emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| NJ | S2468 | Intro
25% | Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring student growth objectives to evaluate teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| NJ | S2494 | Intro
25% | Establishes emergency teacher endorsements in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| NJ | S2364 | Intro
25% | Establishes Commission on Career and Technical Education and creates initiatives that promote career and technical education programs in State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| NJ | S2389 | Intro
25% | Broadens definition of "harassment, intimidation, or bullying" in Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| NJ | S2380 | Intro
25% | Permits certain mental health professionals working in school districts to refer or help facilitate referral of students to private professional counselors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| NJ | SJR69 | Intro
25% | Designates first week of March as "Civic Learning Week" in New Jersey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| NJ | S2376 | Intro
25% | Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every two years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| NJ | S2382 | Intro
25% | Requires schools to report certain assaults to law enforcement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| NJ | S2378 | Intro
25% | Provides gross income tax deduction to eligible educators and paraprofessionals for expense of classroom supplies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| NJ | S2360 | Intro
25% | Provides same military service credit for compensation purposes to noncertificated employees of school districts that is provided to certificated employees under current law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| NJ | S2375 | Intro
25% | Creates pilot program to fund adult education programs for residents of certain communities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| NJ | S2421 | Intro
25% | "Freedom to Read Act"; establishes requirements for library material in public school libraries and public libraries; protects school library media specialists and librarians from harassment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| NJ | S2399 | Intro
25% | Requires voter approval at the annual school election or by the board of school estimate prior to the establishment of charter school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| NJ | S2316 | Intro
25% | Requires certain ratios of school library media specialists to students in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| NJ | S2333 | Intro
25% | Requires board of education to directly employ certain professionals; permits board of education to contract for certain personnel; permits use of virtual or remote instruction for public school students in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| NJ | S1178 | Intro
25% | Requires high schools to offer computer science course.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
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| NJ | S1841 | Intro
25% | Restricts Commissioner of Education's authority to reject school district's budget proposal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
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| NJ | S2126 | Intro
25% | Requires State Board of Education to provide five days' notice of public meeting and permit public comment on agenda items of public meeting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
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| NJ | S1559 | Intro
25% | Establishes three-year pilot program in DOE to support school district programs to increase length of school day or school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
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| NJ | S1809 | Intro
25% | Establishes New Jersey Community Learning Program in DOE to provide comprehensive after school programs in certain communities; dedicates portion of State cannabis revenue to support program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
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| NJ | S908 | Intro
25% | Requires portable anti-choking devices be placed in schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
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| NJ | S973 | Intro
25% | Requires school districts to let nonpublic school students participate in district high school interscholastic athletics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
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| NJ | SCR30 | Intro
25% | Proposes constitutional amendment prohibiting any student from being compelled to attend public school other than one nearest to student's residence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
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| NJ | S153 | Intro
25% | Directs Secretary of Higher Education to conduct study to determine extent and cause of outmigration of high school graduates to out-of-State colleges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
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| NJ | S179 | Intro
25% | Provides that certain sending school districts will continue to have representation on certain receiving boards of education despite decreases in enrollment numbers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
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| NJ | S2263 | Intro
25% | Establishes Co-Curricular Activity Emergency Grant Program to support operations of co-curricular activities at public schools; appropriates $750,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
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