Lawmakers are thinking about requiring high school sports coaches to receive multi-year contracts and a specific set of steps that would have to be followed to discipline or fire them.
A proposed law advancing through the Legislature aims to toss discrimination and harassment out of high school sports — negative practices the lawmaker who sponsors the bill says he's all too familiar with as a head football coach.
The debate is continuing not only over the availability and accessibility of affordable housing in New Jersey, but also whether the courts or the Legislature should oversee the issue.
Lawmakers said that New Jersey has accomplished little despite running the schools for the last 27 years in Jersey City, 25 years in Paterson and 20 years in Newark.