Assemblyman David W. Wolfe, R-Ocean, introduced a bill that "Establishes three-year nonpublic school pupil transportation pilot program in Ocean County to provide funding to county consortium of nonpublic schools that will assume responsibility for mandated nonpublic school busing".
The bill will renew the LSTA consortium for another 3 years but also extend it county wide to neighboring school districts in Ocean county such as Jackson and Toms River. It also calls for NJ Dept of Education to fund the consortium instead of local , Wolf told the APP "I introduced the bill because I really want to get a discussion going about the whole concept of the consortium," .
Currently the LSTA secured funded for another year in the NJ Budget, this bill will extend it for 3 years, and if approved will take effect immediately. Its not clear if this will gain traction though.
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