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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.