It seems unrealistic for most schools to have all students in attendance and meet social distancing rules. Hybrid approach with some virtual learning likely.
New Jersey Department of Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet said his team is ready to move forward to explore how summer instruction and next school year could look.
Decisions about whether to close a school for weeks due to the novel coronavirus remains one for school districts to make as the state is not yet ordering it.
Rebuffing the Murphy administration, at least temporarily, the State Board of Education declined to green light changes to high school assessment program.
It might be possible for NJ middle- and high-school students to be deemed proficient on state science assessments even if they get less than 60% of the possible points on the exam.