Please consider joining the Ridge High School PTO’s letter-writing campaign and sending letters to Governor Chris Christie, Acting Education Commissioner David Hespe, NJ Senators Cory Booker and Robert Menendez, Congressman Leonard Lance, members of the NJ Senate and Assembly Education Committees, and the State Board of Education. Directions for sending letters to critical parties at the State follow.

For some contacts it is simply a matter of copy/paste the drafted letter into an email; for others, the process is more involved as it is necessary to complete an individual form with your contact information. The text of the letter can then be copy/paste into the form.

Please note: specific email addresses and the names of members of the education committees and the state BOE are on the second page. For your convenience, their information is summarized below to facilitate the letter-writing process.

  1. Email the NJ Senate and Assembly Education Committees
  2. Create an email. We have provided a draft in Word – feel free to personalize it based on your concerns
  3. Copy and paste this email list

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  1. Use Modify PARCC Testing as the subject line on your message
  2. Send!
  1. Email the Governor, The Education Commissioner, Congressman Leonard Lance, and NJ Senators Cory Booker and Robert Menendez
  2. Fill out the forms at the links noted below, including your name and address, and cut & paste the text of the letter into the form.
  3. Use Modify PARCC Testing as the subject on your message. No attachments are permitted.

Governor Christie:

Education Commissioner David Hespe:

Congressman Leonard Lance:

Senator Cory Booker:

Senator Robert Menendez:

  1. Email the State Board of Education
  2. Create an email addressing the note to Diane Shoener, Director. We have provided a draft in Word – feel free to personalize it based on your concerns.
  3. At the top of your email, ask that email be shared with the members of the State Board of Education
  4. Use Modify PARCC Testing as the subject of your message.
  5. Send!

Senate Education Committee (included in group email address)

Teresa Ruiz (chair)

Shirley Turner (vice-chair)

Diane

James Beach

Michael Doherty

Assembly Education Committee (included in group email address)

Patrick Diegnan (chair)

Bonnie Watson Coleman (vice-chair)

Ralph

Angel Fuentes

Mila Jasey

Angelica Jimenez

David Rible

Donna Simon

Troy

David Wolfe

District 21 Legislature (included in group email address)

Senator Thomas H. Kean Jr.

Assemblyman Jon M. Bramnick

Assemblywoman Nancy F. Munoz

State Board of Education (see instructions above)

Mark W. BiedronPresidentJoseph FisicaroVice PresidentArcelio Aponte

Ronald K. ButcherClaire ChamberlainJack Fornaro

Edithe FultonErnest P. LeporeAndrew J. Mulvihill

J. Peter SimonDorothy S. Strickland, Ph.D