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By DMUAdmin Joseph Vitale M. Teresa Ruiz News & Releases

27 May: Senate Panel Releases Vitale/Ruiz Bill Ensuring Educational Stability For Kids In Foster Care

TRENTON – The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee today released legislation Senators Joseph Vitale and Teresa Ruiz sponsored to promote greater educational stability for kids in foster care by ensuring they are not uprooted from their schools unnecessarily when placed in a new home.

The bill (S-1333) would change current policy that automatically places a foster child in the school district of their foster family, allowing a child to remain in their current school. The bill would allow a child to switch districts if it is determined to be in their best interest.

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Catholic Health East-New Jersey unveils a photo exhibit, "Faces of The Uninsured," highlighting eight people who lost their jobs and face illness without medical coverage.
By DMUAdmin Joseph Vitale M. Teresa Ruiz News & Releases

04 Mar: Senate Panel Releases Vitale/Ruiz Bill Ensuring Educational Stability For Kids In Foster Care

TRENTON – The Senate Health, Human Services & Senior Citizens Committee today released legislation Senators Joseph Vitale and Teresa Ruiz sponsored to ensure educational stability for kids in foster care by ensuring they are not uprooted from their schools unnecessarily when placed in a new home.

The bill (S-1333) would change current policy that automatically places a foster child in the school district of their foster family, allowing a child to remain in their current school. The bill would allow a child to switch districts if it is determined to be in their best interest.

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03 Mar: ** Preview: Senate Committees To Consider Pay Equity, School District Rules, And Family Medical Record Access For Adoptees Thursday

TRENTON � A group of Senate Committees will meet on Thursday, March 4, to consider a number of bills including measures to facilitate equal pay in the workplace, to promote educational stability for children in foster care, and to permit adopted persons to access family medical records.

The Senate Labor Panel will meet at 10 AM in Committee Room 6 of the State House Annex, to consider, S-1395, a bill sponsored by Senator Loretta Weinberg, D-Bergen, which would call upon the New Jersey Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education to conduct studies and develop guidelines for employers to correct the conditions that lead to gender-based pay disparities.

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