S u m m e r    H a p p e n i n g s - June 2009

•  April 17 - PSD receives news it will receive $1.5M in stimulus monies.

•  May 6 - 18 aides riffed.

•  May 12 - 25 teachers riffed. (This makes over 100 people riffed since May 2008.)

•  May 27 - Board borrows $2.7M to meet June's payroll.

•  May 29 - NJ Supreme Court rules the new educational funding formula constitutional. The effect is the end of the 'Abbott' designation.

•  June 10 - 3% raises for non-union personnel in the PSD.

•  June 24 - Four changes in the administrative ranks in the PSD.

•  June 25 - NJ denies PSD's requested use of stimulus monies.

•  June 26 - July 6 - NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly met in San Diego, CA.

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