Education

Legislation that seeks to improve transparency about schools’ health and sex education curriculum advanced through an Assembly committee Thursday, despite criticism that it wouldn’t actually change much.

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.

New Jersey’s four-year high school graduation rate declined slightly last year, from 91% to 90.6%, according to annual report cards issued by the state.

New school report cards issued by the state this week offer a snapshot of what the pandemic did to schools and students in the 2020-21 academic year.

Lawmakers are mulling what steps they can take to address segregation in New Jersey public schools, even before a Superior Court judge rules in a pending lawsuit that seeks to force the state to take action.

The graduation exam being taken this week by New Jersey high school juniors wouldn’t actually be a requirement to graduate in 2023, under a bill advancing in the Legislature.

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

A lawsuit that could force far-reaching changes to public schools across New Jersey is now in the hands of a state judge, who has been asked to declare that the schools are unconstitutionally segregated.

High school seniors who want to take a bridge year have until Tuesday to let their schools know they’d like another year of classes in their high school or community college.

The new graduation assessment New Jersey 11th graders will take next month will be tougher to pass than originally recommended.