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The Murphy administration and the Legislature must stop crossing their fingers that the pension funding crisis will grow itself out of the problem.
The New Jersey Commission on Higher Education is a government agency in New Jersey that is responsible for providing coordination, planning, policy development, and advocacy for the state's higher education system. The Commission is also responsible for licensing of institutions and the administration of the Educational Opportunity Fund.
Pension benefits are primarily designed to favor workers who work a full career (typically at least 25 years of service), which account for approximately 24% of state-level public workers. In a study of 335 statewide retirement plans, Equable Institute found that 74.1% of pension plans in the US served this group of workers well.
In 2004, then Governor Jim McGreevey created the New Jersey Student Tuition Assistance Reward Scholarship program (NJ STARS) to assist New Jersey high school students who go on to one of New Jersey's county colleges after graduation. Under this program, students who graduated in the top twenty percent of their high school class are provided ...
When schools closed due to COVID in early 2020, 90% of her students did not have a laptop. The district had only 5,600 district laptops to distribute; Abbato sent kids home with whatever ...
Opinion: New Jersey's education system has lost its way and students will suffer the consequences. NJ's education system is not in the best interests of our students. We have to improve
The former Commissioner was Dr. Lamont Repollet, who was confirmed by the New Jersey Senate on June 19, 2018, after serving as Acting Commissioner from January 29, 2018. [6] [7] The Commissioner of Education maintains the role of chief executive school officer of New Jersey. The commissioner acts as a supervisor over all New Jersey public schools.
The New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards were created by the New Jersey State Board of Education in 1996 as the framework for education in New Jersey's public schools and clearly define what all students should know and be able to accomplish at the end of thirteen years of public education. Each subject is broken down for each of the ...