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Lawmakers hear how possible federal education cuts could disrupt New Jersey school programs
Summary
At a joint legislative hearing, superintendents, school business officials and advocates told the Joint Committee on the Public Schools that proposed changes to federal education funding or the US Department of Education could imperil services from tutoring and meals to special education and career-technical programs.
At a hearing of the New Jersey Joint Committee on the Public Schools, state education leaders and school officials described how federal grants and programs support meals, tutoring, special education, career-technical education and mental-health services — and warned that proposed federal changes could force districts to cut staff and programs.
The committee hearing opened with the panel’s co-chairs framing the session as fact-finding. Senator Kryon, co-chair of the joint committee on the public schools, said the panel was convened to “gather to talk about programs and services that New Jersey relies on for federal funding,” and to learn “about the real and immediate impacts” that changes at the U.S.…
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