The controversy over sex education standards for New Jersey public schools seeped into Thursday’s budget hearing, where a Republican state senator pressed the Department of Education to more thoroughly scrub its website for links to potentially age-inappropriate lessons.
A series of student roundtables have been held to help guide education officials on how to move forward as the start of the new school year is about to begin.
Another $923M in federal funds to support NJ schools recovering from the pandemic is on its way to the state, bringing the total since last year to more than $4B.
Gov. Phil Murphy said New Jersey is one of a minority of states not to require civics to be taught in middle school. The change takes effect in the 2022-23 school year.
The Department of Education announces a series of steps to make sure schools are completely open in-person in the fall, and student learning “acceleration practices are followed
Some states have applied for a federal waiver to skip this spring's testing in schools, but New Jersey has not. Students might take the exams from home.