More frustrating news about the FAFSA as the Department of Education has announced that colleges will not receive a student's financial aid information until mid-March at the earliest.
The family of Adriana Kuch, a 14-year-old girl who died by suicide, has filed a lawsuit against their local school district and administrators, accusing them of negligence in dealing with bullying.
South Orange-Maplewood school officials filed a bias complaint, after a high school athlete was briefly kept from playing due to her hairstyle. It's a style protected from racial discrimination by state law.
Felicia LoAlbo-Melendez was 11 when she died, days after being found unresponsive in a middle school bathroom. Her mother says the Mount Holly school failed to step in amid a pattern of bullying.
This November, just over 1,800 board of education candidates are registered with nearly 1,500 seats up for grabs. Data from the NJ School Boards Association shows clusters of competitive races.
Conservative groups have been pushing "parent rights" as a battle cry against some policies in NJ public schools. The trans student issue has gained some Democratic pushback for balance.
At least 3 school districts in New Jersey have rolled back their policy on handling cases of transgender students, after confirmation that state policy is not actually mandatory.