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Although we do not yet have bill numbers for Assembly versions of the bills, now is the time to call your Assembly members and tell them you oppose the bills.

 
Go to the legislatures' website, at www.njleg.state.nj.us, and click on the link that says "Find your legislator."

 

 

Teacher Pay Targeted by
Christie Administration

NorthJersey.com
Friday, January 22, 2010 

 
Senate Bills 2, 3, and 4 Approved 36-0
S2 Makes various pension system changes concerning eligibility, retirement allowance formula, compensation definition, position eligible for service credit, non-forfeitable rights, enrollment waiver, prosecutors part, PFRS special retirement, employer contributions.
 
S3 Makes various changes to SHBP and SEHBP concerning eligibility, cost sharing, choice of plan, application of benefit change, waiver of coverage, and multiple coverage.
 
S4 Makes various changes concerning payments to public employees for unused sick leave, sick leave injury in State service, and PERS and TPAF disability retirement.
 

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NJ Teacher of the Year speaks out against merit pay

When Maryann Woods-Murphy saw a Star-Ledger editorial calling on good teachers to “speak up for merit pay,” she took up the challenge. But New Jersey’s current Teacher of the Year has a very different perspective on the issue. “I don’t need to be paid extra to do my job better,” wrote Woods-Murphy in a Star Ledger guest editorial in which she called merit pay “the wrong thing for our students, our schools and our profession.”

“We don’t need another reform gimmick. We just need the support and resources to do the job we love,” wrote Woods-Murphy, in a spirited defense of her New Jersey teaching colleagues. “That is why this good teacher will never argue for merit pay.”

 
 
 

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