Today the New Jersey Senate passed  with a vote of 37-0 SB 2804 a bill directing the State Board of Education to require children aged 6 and under who are entering public schools or Head Start Programs for the first time, to have a comprehensive eye examination completed by an optometrist or ophthalmologist by January 1 of their initial year of enrollment. The bill was sponsored by Senators Teresa Ruiz and Shirley Turner and co-sponsored by Senators Patrick Diegnan and Troy S

Each year, I see October as a month of change – fall foliage appears, and families settle into school year routines. October also brings World Sight Day, a day of awareness which serves as a continual reminder to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. But this year, October also signals a change for the Vision Impact Institute (VII) as we recently launched a new U.S. initiative, Kids See: Success. Studies repeatedly emphasize the importance of diagnosing r