Bill Text: NJ A3607 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires DOE provide professional development opportunities related to reading disabilities to school district personnel.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-14 - Combined with A3606 (ACS) [A3607 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A3607-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman NELSON T. ALBANO
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Assemblyman RONALD S. DANCER
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Requires DOE provide professional development opportunities related to reading disabilities to school district personnel.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act requiring professional development opportunities related to reading disabilities and supplementing chapter 6 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Beginning in the first full school year following the effective date of this act, the Department of Education shall provide professional development opportunities related to reading disabilities, including dyslexia, to school district personnel. The professional development shall be provided to general education, special education, and English as a second language teachers, instructional support staff, administrators, supervisors, child study team members, and speech and language specialists. The professional development opportunities shall be designed to account for the various manners in which different school district personnel interact with, or develop instructional programs for, students with reading disabilities.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires that the Department of Education provide professional development opportunities related to reading disabilities, including dyslexia, to a variety of school district personnel. The professional development opportunities would be designed to account for the various manners in which different school district personnel interact with, and develop instructional programs for, students with reading disabilities.
