TRENTON – The Senate today gave unanimous approval to legislation sponsored by Senators Shirley Turner, Joseph Doria and John Girgenti that would define any assault on a nonpublic school teacher or administrator as an aggravated assault.
“No teacher should ever have to worry about being assaulted by a student,” said Senator Turner, D-Mercer and Chair of the Senate Education Committee. “But the penalty for harming a teacher should not be dependent on whether that individual teaches in a public or private school. Charging tuition shouldn’t result in less stringent punishments for students acting in such a deplorable way.”