New Jersey School Boards Association has issued a warning regarding the current lame duck session of the Legislature. Assemblyman Joseph Cryan put it succinctly in today’s Ledger: “There are also some people who think that we should move our agendas and commitments forward and let the future be damned.”
Here’s the ways school districts could be damned, according to NJSBA:
A-4140 eliminates the option for districts to privatize non-instructional services.
A-4142 gives arbitration rights to non-tenured employees, which is a lot like giving tenure from the moment a new employee walks in the door.
S-1882 lets municipalities slough off the responsibility for hiring adult crossing guards to local districts.
S-1137/A-1547 “makes employment matters which are not exempt by statute the mandatory subjects of public employment collective bargaining.”
All of these bills, by the way, are heavily backed by NJEA.
