TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblyman Brian Bergen (R-25) was among the public officials who expressed outrage this week concerning the Murphy Administration's continued strange priorities when it comes to who gets vaccinated and when. The latest: on Wednesday, the Democrat regime decided that the state's
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Lately, we’ve seen efforts by public bodies to clamp down on public comment. In December, the Rutgers Board of Governors voted to limit the number of speakers to 12 and give them two minutes each. On Monday, the Hudson County Board of Commissioners passed the first draft of an ordinance limiting total public comment time to two hours, after listening to nine hours of opposition to renewing their jail contract with ICE.
The New Jersey Assembly approved a bill that requires schools to include diversity and inclusion learning for kindergarten through 12th grade starting with the 2021-2022 school year.
Bill A4454 is headed to Gov. Phil Murphy to sign. If he signs it, school districts will need to incorporate lessons that highlight and promote economic diversity equity, inclusion, tolerance and belonging in connection with gender and sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, disabilities, religious tolerance and unconscious bias.
A supporter of the bill in its previous form, Assemblyman Brian Bergen (R-Morris) said he s against teaching young children about gender preferences and sexual identity.
N.J. schools would teach lessons in diversity under bill headed to governor
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
The Legislature has sent the governor a bill mandating diversity and inclusion be taught in grades kindergarten through 12.bn
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The state Assembly passed a bill Monday requiring diversity and inclusion be taught in grades kindergarten through 12 in New Jersey public schools beginning next school year.
The bill (A4454), which was passed by the state Senate in December and heads now to the governor, would update the New Jersey Student Learning Standards to promote “economic diversity, equity, inclusion, tolerance, and belonging in connection with gender and sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, disabilities, and religious tolerance.”