A880 -S2400- Reading Disabilities Task Force- fyi

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Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:03 PM

Subject: Re: A880 -S2400- Reading Disabilities Task Force

Are you aware that the law specifies that one member of the task force be

recommended for appointment by LDANJ? I copied part of the actual wording.

See the second section in boldface.

Fern

a. There is hereby established the New Jersey Reading Disabilities Task

Force. The purpose of the task force shall be to study and evaluate

practices for diagnosing, treating, and educating children with reading

disabilities and examine how current statutes and regulations affect these

students in order to develop recommendations to be presented to the Governor

and Legislature.

b. The task force shall consist of 13 members as follows: (1) the

Commissioners of Education and Human Services, or their designees, who

shall serve ex officio; (2) 11 members who shall be appointed no later than

the 30th day after the effective date of this act, as follows:(a) five

persons appointed by the Governor, who shall include: one person upon the

recommendation of the New Jersey branch of the Learning Disabilities

Association of America; one person upon the recommendation of the New Jersey

branch of the International Dyslexia Association; and three members of the

public with demonstrated expertise in issues relating to the work of the

task force; ( two members of the Senate, appointed by the President of the

Senate, no more than one of whom shall be of the same political party; ©

two members of the General Assembly, appointed by the

Speaker of the General Assembly, no more than one of whom shall be of the

same political party, and;(d) two members of the public, one selected by the

President of he Senate and one selected by the Speaker of the

GeneralAssembly, with demonstrated expertise in issues relating to the work

of the task force.