Bill Text: NJ S2440 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires DOE provide professional development opportunities related to reading disabilities; mandates certain school district personnel annually complete two hours of professional development related to reading disabilities.*

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-27 - Substituted by A3606/3607 (ACS) [S2440 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-S2440-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2440

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 8, 2013

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JEFF VAN DREW

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

 

 

 

 

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.