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Some New Jersey schools back in session with new pandemic-caused challenges
CHATHAM, N.J. — It is again to highschool for some youngsters in New Jersey, though most will return after Labor Day.
CBS2’s Kevin Rincon has extra on what the brand new faculty 12 months will appear like.
Chatham is one among a handful of faculty districts that begin again up earlier than September, and regardless of what it says on the calendar, it felt like the beginning of the brand new faculty 12 months, with blended feelings.
“They actually wish to return. Truly, we’re comfortable to return, too,” one guardian stated.
“It was enjoyable as a result of I received to hang around with my buddies,” one scholar stated.
“I do not wish to go to highschool,” one other scholar stated.
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The varsity district of the Chathams is one among only a few to begin earlier than Labor Day. For the remaining, they’re nonetheless getting ready. This weekend, New Jersey will attempt to assist by providing a gross sales tax vacation on faculty provides.
“It covers a broad vary of something you’d affiliate with back-to-school, so notebooks, pens, laptops, you title it. It additionally contains issues like athletic gear to assist get our youngsters on the sector,” Gov. Phil Murphy stated.
The pandemic has created challenges — amongst them, staffing shortages.
“We have now by no means even skilled wherever close to the vacancies that we’re experiencing now,” stated Luis Rojas, assistant superintendent of human sources for Paterson Colleges.
Paterson Colleges employed greater than 70 new academics this summer season alone.
“They’re trying underneath each rock, looking for no matter they’ll simply to get a instructor within the door,” Rojas stated.
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That very same power is getting used to attempt to discover faculty bus drivers.
“Earlier than the pandemic, there was a driver scarcity, and publish, it is even worst,” stated Patricia Cowley, administrator for the New Jersey Faculty Bus Contractors Affiliation.
She says many retired after colleges went digital. The fierce job market has made it powerful to deliver them again.
“Truck driving, constitution motor coach driving, FedEx supply, Amazon, so we’re competing with many different driving jobs,” Cowley stated.
For many who’ve caught round, there’s new hurdles to beat heading into the brand new faculty 12 months, like burnout.
“It is a problem for any discipline proper now, looking for that steadiness,” highschool instructor Molly Tague stated.
She hopes as a substitute of oldsters shopping for academics extra faculty provides, they’re going to make investments extra time of their youngsters.
“It is cliché, however it does take a village, and when everyone seems to be on the identical web page and has some empathy and understanding, then we’re in a position to achieve success,” Tague stated.
NORTH JERSEY, NJ — A Hazardous Weather Outlook has been issued for Bergen County, with heavy rain expected late Saturday, and as much as an inch in the wee hours.
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N.J. pulls funding for Jersey City French museum project, calling it 'no longer viable' • New Jersey Monitor
State officials have yanked funding for a planned French art museum in the heart of Jersey City after determining the project is no longer viable, according to letters obtained by the New Jersey Monitor.
The state Economic Development Authority sent a letter Saturday to the president of The Centre Pompidou museum in Paris telling him the North American location Pompidou wants to open in Jersey City’s Journal Square section will not receive the tens of millions in aid New Jersey has promised. Lawmakers have reallocated state funds previously set aside for the Jersey City Pompidou outpost, a state official wrote in a separate letter to the head of the Jersey City agency overseeing the project.
“Due to the ongoing impact of COVID and multiple global conflicts on the supply chain, rising costs, an irreconcilable operating gap, and the corresponding financial burdens it will create for New Jersey’s taxpayers, the Legislature has rescinded financial support, leaving us to determine that this project is unfortunately no longer feasible,” Economic Development Authority chief Tim Sullivan wrote in a Saturday letter to Laurent Le Bon, the Pompidou’s president.
In the other letter, sent Saturday from Michael Greco, deputy executive director of the Department of State, to Jersey City Redevelopment Agency chief Diana Jeffrey, Greco asked the agency to return $6 million the state department has given for the project but has not been spent yet. The $24 million lawmakers had allocated in the 2024 budget and the $18 million the was part of the 2022 budget has been returned to the state’s general fund, the letter says.
“Based on the Legislature’s actions, there is no longer any State support available for this project,” Greco wrote.
The state’s decision to reassign funds meant for the museum, called the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, is not a surprise. The city’s mayor, Steve Fulop, went public in April with claims that New Jersey officials were taking funding away from the Pompidou to retaliate against him for retracting his endorsement of first lady Tammy Murphy’s now-scuttled bid for the U.S. Senate.
Fulop is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor next year.
Jersey City and Pompidou officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Economic Development Authority has acknowledged it had doubts about the financial viability of the Jersey City Pompidou project, citing a $19 million hole in the museum’s operating budget. Jersey City had been hoping for a $2 million annual subsidy for the museum, but that will not happen, Greco’s letter says.
Jersey City has until Aug. 1 to return the $6 million provided by the Department of State, the letter adds.
The Centre Pompidou x Jersey City plan has long been criticized by Republicans, who opposed using state funds for it. As Sullivan and Fulop traded barbs over the funding last month, Republican lawmakers wrote a letter to the state urging the funding to go toward a “more responsible purpose.”
The museum was originally slated to open in early 2024, but that was pushed to as late as 2027. When city officials announced plans for the museum in 2021, they said it would reinvigorate Journal Square and transform it into an arts, entertainment, and tourism hub.
In the letter to Pompidou’s president, Sullivan commends its staff for their collaborative work and says he hopes to continue strengthening the “economic and cultural bond” between France and New Jersey. He added he is disappointed by the outcome.
“While the door on this particular project has now been closed, we are eager to explore possibilities of opening new doors, with our partners in France, in the years to come,” he said.
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