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'GSCS Tidbits'
8-16-10 GSCS will testify to the Senate Education Committee on S2198 Ruiz/Cunningham, the bill that calls for expanding 'authorizers' of charter schools.
8-11-10 GSCS Executive Director was guest on Fox 5 (Fox 29, Philadelphia) evening news show to debate value of federal law passed this Tuesday to that allocates $268M for teacher jobs, plus $399M in Medicaid costs to New Jersey for this Fiscal Year. GSCS supports this law.

8-11-10 Headed by Commissioner Schundler, a team of five from the Department of Education presented on New Jersey's application for a Race to the Top grant in Washington D.C. to evaluators from the USDOE.

GSCS has been informed by the NJ Departmente of Education that the code required to support the proposed superintendent salary cap policy will be filed on Aug. 19, and it will be published per the calendar(www.state.nj.us/oal/publication_schedule.html on Sept. 20 ; The 60 day comment period on this code ends Nov. 19.


GSCS has put together a Special Education Work Group to look at mandates and costs; it is anticpated that the work group will report its findings to membership this fall.