Bill > A1778

Introduced Session

This bill would establish the four-year "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program," to provide grants to assist school districts, renaissance schools, and charter schools in enhancing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education programs for students and to increase access to STEM education programs. Applications for grant awards under the pilot program would be submitted to the Commissioner of Education, who would allocate the awards on a competitive basis. The grant awards would be distributed so that school districts, renaissance schools, and charter schools can build upon existing STEM education programs or create new education programs along three distinct areas of concentration: project-based learning, afterschool STEM, and out-of-school STEM. This bill also establishes within the Department of Education a fund to be known as the "STEM Scholars Grant Fund," for the provision of grants to school districts, renaissance schools, and charter schools under the pilot program. The fund is to be annually credited with money appropriated by the Legislature and any moneys received by the State from corporate donors or other private sector support. No State funds may be used to support a grant under the pilot program unless there is an appropriation for the pilot program in the annual appropriations act for the respective fiscal year.

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Clinton Calabrese (D)*,  Linda Carter (D)*,  Jim Kennedy (D)*,  Roy Freiman (D),  Shama Haider (D),  Robert Karabinchak (D),  Yvonne Lopez (D),  Michele Matsikoudis (R),  Carol Murphy (D),  Ellen Park (D),  Annette Quijano (D),  Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D),  Shanique Speight (D),  Sterley Stanley (D),  Lisa Swain (D),  Michael Venezia (D), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (on 01/09/2024)

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