Angelica Allen-McMillan

The request to delay the new standards was rebuffed on procedural grounds, but the commissioner and the board president defended them as appropriate.

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.

Sixty-seven percent of districts will get more aid next year, more than $835 million altogether. But 182 districts are losing nearly $186 million.

Gov. Phil Murphy says it’s part of a plan to eventually provide universal pre-K to all Garden State families

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

Sen. Mike Testa, R-Cumberland, said the state can’t leave it up to districts and should step in more forcefully to direct school openings regionally.

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.