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School Funding Formula Hearing
January 24 & 25, 2006

Program Information: The New Jersey Department of Education has scheduled three public hearings to be held on Wednesday, January 23 and 24, 2007 discuss the Report on the Cost of Education which was released by DOE on December 16, 2006. The purpose of the report is to calculate the costs that New Jersey school districts face in meeting state performance and accountability standards. A copy of the report is available on-line here: www.state.nj.us/njded/news/2006/report.pdf More Details and Registration

Agenda

Date & Time	Location
Wednesday, January 24 1:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.	Gloucester County College, 1400 Tanyard Road, Sewell. The hearing will be held in room 430 of the Instructional Center. Click here for directions. Hearing attendees should park in Lot D or Lot E.
Wednesday, January 24 6:30 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.	Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. The hearing will be held in the Conference Center. Click here for directions. Hearing attendees should park in the West Student Lot.
Thursday, January 25 4:30 P.M. – 7:30 P.M.	New Jersey City University, Jersey City. The hearing will be held in the Gothic Lounge, Hepburn Hall, room 202. Click here for directions. Parking is extremely limited on the campus near Hepburn Hall or on the streets around the campus. Additional parking is located on Audubon Avenue and Westside Avenue, Lot 3. To reach that parking, lot continue straight down Audubon Avenue. It is a paid facility. Upon entering the lot, you must take a ticket. The parking rate is $6 per entry/exit.

All three hearings will be web cast live.

People who wish to testify must register in advance and sign a release that will permit their voices to be recorded and broadcast on line. A registration form will be available on-line starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 18, at https://education.state.nj.us/sff/sff.php. People may also register by phone by calling 609-292-6038. Each organization will be limited to one speaker per site and all speakers will be limited to five minutes each.

Those who would prefer to submit written testimony rather than attend the hearings in person may send that testimony electronically to legislative@doe.state.nj.us or fax it to 609-777-2077. .

The web cast stream can be viewed using Windows Media Player (download the player from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology) at www.njedge.net/doelive
Archives of the stream will be available from the NJEDge.Net website (www.njedge.net) or the Department of Education Web-site (www.state.nj.us/education) approximately two days after each hearing.

Archived Webcast

January 25, 2007 - Live from New Jersey City University:

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Archived Webcasts of Hearings held on December 18, 2006

About NJEDge.Net
NJEDge.Net, New Jersey’s Higher Education Network is a non-profit consortium of the Presidents’ Council that was created to enhance instruction, research and public service at the state’s colleges and universities through a broadband statewide network. One of the primary network services is the NJEDge Video Portal, which is a large scale videoconferencing system capable of delivering several hundred videoconferences with multiple participating sites. The service is designed to facilitate and promote collaboration and the development of joint educational programs and initiatives and provides powerful new tools to remotely deliver academic course offerings as well as community based workforce development initiatives anywhere within the state.