Gov. Murphy also announced the creation of the state Office of Climate Action and the Green Economy, and the N.J. Council on the Green Economy, led by first lady Tammy Murphy.
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The Murphy administration will be spending $100 million on statewide electric vehicle programs, through a combination of funds from the Volkswagen emissions settlement and the state’s revenue from the recently re-joined multi-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Gov. Phil Murphy, during a Feb. 16 press announcement in Newark, boasted the proposal as a means to push the .
TRENTON Consecutive school years upended by the coronavirus pandemic have state lawmakers considering drastic steps to help students catch up, such as widespread summer school and giving parents the option to have their child repeat a grade.
The ideas remain mostly conceptual, though the Assembly Education Committee endorsed a bill Monday creating an Alleviating Learning Loss in New Jersey grant program that would help pay for learning and support programs in the summer of 2021 and 2021-22 school year. Funds would come from federal aid, though none are specifically allocated in the bill.
Sen. Teresa Ruiz, D-Essex, said the goal is to see “how we can alleviate some of this without just losing another year.” She said data is needed to understand how students are faring, both academically and in terms of social-emotional learning.
New Jersey residents with disabilities, at greater risk of severe illness from the coronavirus, are not yet being vaccinated, in spite of the state s promise to do so starting last month.
Advocates say the state has not prioritized this medically vulnerable population throughout the pandemic, so this is par for the course.
“None of the sites will vaccinate them, even when they have openings, and I know they have had openings because I have staff receiving phone calls from vaccine places with cancellations,” said Steve Cook, executive director of the Arc of Mercer County, who oversees 325 full- and part-time staff members who help care for 85 residents.