2021 NJ Governor's race: on Education


Jack Ciattarelli: Re-balance over-funded vs/ under-funded school districts

The assemblyman from Somerset County vows to rebalance statewide school funding. The current cutting of the money pie is "blatantly unfair, terribly flawed,'' he says. Ciattarelli says he'll push to reduce excess aid in the most overfunded school districts by 20 percent per year over 5 years, with the savings re-directed to the most severely underfunded school districts.
Source: Bergen Record on 2021 New Jersey Gubernatorial race Mar 20, 2017

Jack Ciattarelli: Don't mandate college vaccination until others vaccinated

[On COVID vaccinations]: "Governor Murphy should discourage our public and private colleges and universities from mandating vaccinations for all students," he continued. "At the very least, he should do so until such time as the state can guarantee that every single New Jerseyan in higher-risk categories has immediate access to a vaccine should they choose to get one."
Source: Middletown Patch on 2021 New Jersey Gubernatorial race Feb 1, 2021

Jack Ciattarelli: We're going to roll back the LGBTQ curriculum; goes too far

Ciattarelli is vowing to roll back school curricula that centers LGTBQ inclusivity, falsely claiming that "sexual orientation" is being taught to kindergarteners and sixth graders are learning "sodomy."

"You won't have to deal with it when I'm governor, but we're not teaching gender ID and sexual orientation to kindergarteners. We're not teaching sodomy in sixth grade. And we're going to roll back the LGBTQ curriculum. It goes too far."

Source: Gothamist.com on 2021 New Jersey Gubernatorial race

Jack Ciattarelli: Reconfigure state school funding to where it's needed today

Wants to make changes to the state's school funding formula. He calls for "reweighing cost-per-student spending targets ... so the distribution aligns with need today, not the 1980s." He also wants to reduce excess aid to overfunded schools districts and redistribute the money to underfunded schools.
Source: Newark Star Ledger on 2021 New Jersey Gubernatorial race May 15, 2019

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Candidates and political leaders on Education:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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