sex education

Facing enormous pressure from parents and community members, some districts have sought to get around the new standards.

A group of New Jersey Senate Republicans held an independent hearing about what they say are disturbing state curriculum mandates.

Middletown, NJ, to adopt an opt-in policy on controversial sex-ed classes

The state says local school districts have wide latitude over how to teach the new sex education standards but that ignoring them isn't an option.

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.

Under Sen. Gopal's plan, districts would have to post the exact curriculum to be taught online for parents to view.