New Jersey School Choice Alliance

Bill S-1607, The Urban Enterprise Zone Jobs Scholarship Act, which will provide scholarships for as many as 20,000 low-income students in eight New Jersey cities, passed the State Senate’s Economic Growth Committee on May 9th. the bill has also had a hearing before the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, and now it awaits a vote there so it may reach the Senate floor. These are great victories.

BUT THERE IS STILL MORE TO DO!

Members of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, and other members of the Senate and Assembly, need to hear from YOU!

PUSH A BUTTON AND MAKE YOURSELF HEARD!

June 11, 2008
BY JOHN MOONEY
Star-Ledger Staff

Brilliant in their gold-and-blue mortar boards and robes, the eighth-graders marched into the sanctuary to the burst of camera flashes and proud smiles.

The 15 graduates of Newark’s Blessed Sacrament School, whose commencement Monday was held in the adjoining church of the same name, are a special group from a school that’s had plenty of special students since opening in 1916. Read the rest of this entry »

June 8, 2008
Editorial
The Courier-Post

N.J. should launch pilot program to allow 4,000 kids from eight poor communities the chance to escape their failing schools.

There’s an old saying about the definition of insanity — how it’s insane to keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

That’s the course of logic the state’s largest teachers’ union — the New Jersey Education Association — and its president — Joyce Powell — apparently follow in their incredibly misguided opposition to a proposal in Trenton to finally give 4,000 kids in eight poor communities scholarships to go to better schools and get real educations that might give them a chance to escape a life of poverty. Read the rest of this entry »

Bill S-1607, The Urban Enterprise Zone Jobs Scholarship Act, which will provide scholarships for as many as 20,000 low-income students in eight New Jersey cities, passed the State Senate’s Economic Growth Committee on May 9th. This is a great victory.

BUT THERE IS STILL MORE TO DO!.

This important legislation must be referred to the Senate’s Budget and Appropriations Chaired by Senator Barbara Buono. Senator Buono and Senate President Richard Codey NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU!