Pat Diegnan

During a recent hearing at the State House, Department of Education Commissioner David Hespe warned that school districts with low participation rates in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers tests run the risk of losing aid. The chairman of the Assembly Education Committee said Monday that threats are not productive.

Students in the Garden State should not be given standardized tests until they reach the third grade, according to several New Jersey lawmakers including the chairman of the Assembly Education Committee.

With winter only a few months away, there is growing interest in allowing New Jersey school districts to replace snow days with cyber school days.

Do you think visual and performing arts courses should be equally important as math and science classes? A pair of New Jersey lawmakers are co-sponsoring a bipartisan measure to make it a requirement.