New Jersey Students Still Waiting as FY27 Budget Fails to Address School Facilities Needs
Education Law Center (ELC) is deeply disappointed that the State’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget does not include significant…
Newly Introduced School Facilities Bond Legislation Targets Urgent Infrastructure Needs
Education Law Center applauds Senate Majority Leader Teresa Ruiz for introducing legislation that would authorize a statewide bond…
State Report Finds Two-Thirds of SDA Districts Lack Adequate School Facilities
Advocates Call for Immediate Action to Fund Critical School Construction Projects A recently released report by the New…
ELC Urges NJ Legislators to Fund School Construction Program to Meet Extreme Need
At the request of the Joint Committee on the Public Schools, Education Law Center presented testimony on April 26…
NJ Supreme Court Leaves School Construction Funding to Governor and Legislature — For Now
On Tuesday, the New Jersey Supreme Court denied a motion filed by Education Law Center on behalf of…
PROPOSED LEGISLATION DIVERTS MUCH NEEDED STATE SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION FUNDING TO CHARTER AND RENAISSANCE SCHOOLS
A bill in the New Jersey Legislature (A4496/S3247) proposing access to 100 percent State facilities construction funding for…
JUDGE FINDS NJ HAS FAILED TO PROVIDE NEEDED ASSURANCE OF CONTINUED FUNDING FOR SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM
Report also finds project cost estimates inadequate Yesterday, retired Judge Thomas Miller issued an 87-page report to the…
AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF DELAY, NJ LEGISLATURE FINALLY COMMITS FUNDS TO RESTART SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION IN URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS
ELC: A Good Start But Much More Needed to Educate All Students in Safe, Modern Facilities June 29,2022…
NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT ORDERS REMAND TO DETERMINE COST ESTIMATES FOR MAJOR SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AND EMERGENT REPAIRS
January 6, 2022 On December 15, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued an order for a remand proceeding before…
STATE’S REFUSAL TO FUND SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION FORCES STUDENTS BACK TO COURT
Students enrolled in unsafe and dilapidated school buildings in New Jersey’s poor urban districts are again asking the…