Lawmaker says active-shooter drills can traumatize children, wants written notice and an end to fake blood, guns and more
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An active-shooter drill at Robert Fulton School, North Bergen in June 2017 involved multiple law enforcement agencies.
New Jersey must redo how it conducts emergency drills in schools, says a lawmaker who has been advocating to change them for years.
Any school district planning to conduct an emergency drill, including “lockdowns,” could only do so after written notice had been provided to staff, parents and guardians of students in the district, reads a bill introduced last week by Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg.
05/03/21
Jon L. Gelman
NJ Governor Phil Murphy on Friday signed the Healthy Terminals Act (S989) which creates new minimum wage and benefits requirements for certain Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and Newark Liberty International Train Station workers. The legislation will expand access to livable wages and affordable health care for workers at the airport and train station who often cannot afford employer-provided health care plans.
“For a long time, we have heard the concerns and often desperate pleas from airport workers for access to affordable health care and for wages that allow them to support themselves and their families,” said Governor Murphy. “This legislation provides workers at Newark Airport the dignity, respect, and treatment that they deserve. These men and women have selflessly been serving through the COVID-19 pandemic as critical infrastructure workers, and I am proud to sign this legislation that will finally provide them with the health care
Gov. Murphy and NJ Transit: When will he learn? | Editorial
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Gov. Murphy’s budget speech included a fist-pumping vow to “lean into the policies that can fix our decades-old inequities,” and the scenario that began to unspool in every nodding head was that he was going to finally take sure steps to help New Jersey Transit turn the corner.
Instead, it looks like much of the same terrain. While Murphy suggested it was time to seize policies that “will supercharge our reemergence” from the pandemic, he offered nothing but business as usual for this bedraggled mass transit system.