Excerpts from the report to the New Jersey State Board of Education by the committee of school superintendents, principals, guidance personnel, and State Department of Education staff members. (GB)

Presents the legislative action program of the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), including general political objectives and the organization's stance on specific bills in the New Jersey legislature. A summary of national legislative goals and political action information for NJEA members is also provided. (SJL)

Shows that only 21 states have legislation designed to aid gifted children (termed those with intelligence scores of 120 and above). (DS)

Describes New Jersey's Migrant Education Program, including legal definitions, state-level responsibilities, supportive services, and the Migrant Teacher Corps Project. (SJL)

Believes that the New Jersey Commission of Education's Policy of state-wide testing creates an atmosphere of repression against teachers'' and curbs imagination and innovation'' in children. (DS)

The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) criticizes state-mandated program-oriented budgeting as limited, laborious, inflexible, and more concerned with efficiency than with sound education. NJEA sets out its own guidelines on school budgeting, which favor the traditional line-item budget. (SJL)

The New Jersey Education Association charges that serious reporting errors in the state's minimum basic skills (MBS) testing program are causing some children to be falsely labelled as failures and are leading to misallocation of State Compensatory Education Aid, which is based on a formula using MBS scores. (SJL)

The three-day New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival provides an atmosphere that recognizes student talent without competition and that exposes teachers and students to new ideas, allowing them close contact with professional artists in a workshop setting. (Author/SJL)

The New Jersey State Board of Education has adopted revised regulations mandating the teaching of family life education in all New Jersey schools by September, 1983. This article discusses the revisions and the controversy surrounding the mandate, especially its provisions for sex education. (SJL)

This article describes the philosophy, organization, and funding of the New Jersey State Teen Arts Program, a statewide model arts-in-education project which offers all New Jersey teenagers a chance to meet working artists and to actively participate in an interdisciplinary arts experience through annual state and county festivals. (SJL)

This description of New Jersey's public vocational education program emphasizes its nondiscriminatory and innovative features. (SJL)

New Jersey has had transitional bilingual programs since 1968 and a state bilingual law since 1974. New Jersey's regulations are far stronger than the proposed federal regulations which were withdrawn by the Reagan administration. The New Jersey Education Association is proud of its record supporting bilingual education. (Editor/SJL)

This article notes some of the criticisms of government-funded compensatory education programs found in two recent reports: the Rand Report on Federal Programs and the Meissner Report on the status of New Jersey's state-funded remedial programs. (SJL)

The New Jersey Education Association outlines a 55 point plan for quality education in New Jersey school districts, in relation to the state's 1975 school improvement law for "Thorough and Efficient Education." (SJL)