Get our free mobile app On Tuesday, the State Senate Education Committee unanimously approved bipartisan legislation sponsored by State Senate President Steve Sweeney and Monmouth County Senators Vin Gopal and Declan O’Scanlon, which they said in a statement, will "encourage the creation of K-12 regional and countywide school districts in an effort to improve educational quality and efficiency." Their legislation ( S-3488) would set up criteria for state-funded regionalization studies, increase flexibility on regionalization cost apportionment, bar any regionalization that would have a seg...