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A1314 • 2026

Directs DOE to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to teaching and education support professions; appropriates $1 million.

Directs DOE to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to teaching and education support professions; appropriates $1 million.

Education
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Miller, Cody D.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs DOE to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to teaching and education support professions; appropriates $1 million.

Directs DOE to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to teaching and education support professions; appropriates $1 million.

What This Bill Does

  • Directs DOE to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to teaching and education support professions; appropriates $1 million.
  • Topic: Education Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee

Official Summary Text

Directs DOE to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to teaching and education support professions; appropriates $1 million.
Topic:
Education
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1314

ASSEMBLY, No. 1314

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman CODY D. MILLER

District 4 (Atlantic, Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblyman MICHAEL VENEZIA

District 34 (Essex)

SYNOPSIS

���� Directs DOE to establish advertising campaign to
attract candidates to teaching and education support professions; appropriates
$1 million.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

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An Act

establishing an advertising campaign for the
teaching and education support professions and supplementing chapter 6 of Title
18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

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

���� 1.� a.� The Department of
Education, in consultation with the Office of the Secretary of Higher
Education, shall establish a multimedia advertising campaign to attract
candidates to the teaching and education support professions.� The campaign
shall promote the teaching and education support professions as engaging,
dynamic, and rewarding career opportunities. The campaign shall promote
available scholarships, student loan redemption programs, and other available
financial support opportunities for those seeking careers in the teaching and
education support professions.� The campaign shall use a combination of digital
outlets, television, radio, print, and other media for its purposes.�

���� b.��� The department, in
developing and administering the general advertising campaign, shall also
create targeted advertising to increase the recruitment of teachers and
education support professionals:

���� (1)�� from underrepresented
racial groups;

���� (2)�� into high-demand fields,
including special education, teaching careers in the science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field, world languages, bilingual
education, and any other high-demand fields identified by the Commissioner of
Education; and

���� (3)�� into high-demand fields
of education support professions, as identified by the commissioner.��

���� 2.��� To effectuate the
provisions of this act, there is appropriated to the Department of Education
the sum of $1,000,000 which shall be, to the extent permitted by federal law,
paid for from monies received by the State under the federal �American Rescue
Plan (ARP) Act,� Pub.L.117-2.

���� 3.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill directs the
Department of Education, in consultation with the Office of the Secretary of
Higher Education, to establish a multimedia advertising campaign to attract
candidates to the teaching and education support professions.� The campaign
will promote the teaching and education support professions as engaging,
dynamic, and rewarding career opportunities.� The campaign is required to
promote financial support opportunities for those seeking careers in the
teaching and education support professions and to use a combination of digital
outlets, television, radio, print, and other media for its purposes.�

���� The department, in developing
and administering the general advertising campaign, is also required to create
targeted advertising to increase the recruitment of teachers and education
support professionals:

���� (1) from underrepresented
racial groups;

���� (2) into high-demand fields,
including special education, teaching careers in the science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field, world languages, bilingual
education, and any other high-demand fields identified by the Commissioner of
Education; and

���� (3) into high-demand fields of
education support professions, as identified by the commissioner.��

���� The bill appropriates to the
Department of Education the sum of $1,000,000 which will, to the extent
permitted by federal law, be paid for from the funds received by the State
under the federal �American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act,� Pub.L.117-2 to effectuate the
provisions of the bill.