Posts Tagged ‘Urban Enterprise Zone Jobs Scholarship Act’

The Winter Push Begins!

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

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!

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THE LAST GRADUATION

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

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. (more…)