Bill Text: NJ A2985 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires DOE to review Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure they incorporate standards regarding engineering where appropriate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-16 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A2985 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A2985-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2985

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 16, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.

District 18 (Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires DOE to review Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure they incorporate standards regarding engineering where appropriate.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning engineering education.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

      1.   The Department of Education shall undertake a review of the Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure that they incorporate standards regarding engineering where appropriate.  The department shall report any findings and recommendations to the Governor by March 31, 2016.

 

      2.   This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

      This bill directs the Department of Education to undertake a review of the Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure that they incorporate standards regarding engineering where appropriate.  The department must report any findings and recommendations to the Governor by March 31, 2016.