A month after the State Board of Education raised the score needed to pass the new NJGPA, an Assembly panel voted to make it a field test for current juniors.
A month after the State Board of Education raised the score needed to pass the new NJGPA, an Assembly panel voted to make it a field test for current juniors.
A month after the State Board of Education raised the score needed to pass the new NJGPA, an Assembly panel voted to make it a field test for current juniors.
Salary and pension? Bill lets retired teachers return to work
TRENTON – A bill moving through the Senate would let retired teachers return to the classroom for up to two years and collect a salary and pension at the same time, in an effort to make it easier to hire for hard-to fill vacancies.
That’s currently the law for short-term hires for school superintendents and other administrators. The proposal would expand that to teaching positions deemed by the state to be “of critical need,” which is likely to cover things like science, math, world languages and special education.
“This is an issue that’s been facing a lot of our school districts,” said Sen. Teresa Ruiz, D-Essex. “I think a lot of personnel has retired. There’s a lot of vacancies in specific areas, and so we’re just trying to create tools so that districts are able to staff up.”
State Senate President Steve Sweeney
After years of prep work, a sweeping bill urging New Jersey’s hundreds of school districts to join in broader regional systems won quick very quick backing Tuesday and could be on a fast track to a full vote in the state Senate in coming weeks.
Filed last week, the long-expected bill crafted by state Senate President Steve Sweeney would revise the state’s process for school districts to study and then implement school regionalizations. And it includes some new financial incentives for those that pursue combined operations.
Sweeney (D-Gloucester) has touted the measure as the state’s best shot yet to bring greater efficiencies to a state public-education system notorious for its more than 600 separate school districts.