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The mayor of Somerset County's second-most populous municipality is targeting the local superintendent over a plan for armed security in schools.

The borough has formally apologized after a racial incident in which a white baseball player made “monkey noises” at a Black pitcher for West Deptford during a high school game.

This academic year may be winding down, but schools in New Jersey are already preparing to add climate change to their lesson plans for September.

A program launching this summer aims to transform New Jersey parents into stronger advocates for their children's education.

New Jersey schools acting as polling places for this Tuesday's primary election will have the option to have a remote learning day, state officials confirmed.

"Knock on wood, we're all back to some sense of normalcy," Thomas Farrell, superintendent of Brick Township Public Schools, told the Townsquare News Network.

Murphy says his administration is "looking at what options we need to take," but says predictive modeling from the Department of Health indicates the current wave will peak in the "next week or two."

New Jersey is seeing an average of 3,701 new positive COVID tests per day, which is a 37% increase from a week ago. The rate of transmission is 1.25, indicating an active spread of the coronavirus.

Lawmakers in the New Jersey Senate have advanced a bill that would require free menstrual products to be provided in all school bathrooms for students in grades 6 through 12.

A new proposal by New Jersey Senate Republicans prompted the president of non-profit Advocates for Youth to lament the state being "pulled back into the dark ages" by misinformation.