NJ Schools

Murphy signs bill designed to hold parents accountable for kids' behavior

More than 2,000 New Jersey borrowers will see loan debts forgiven while 11,000 or so will receive restitution checks for roughly $260 each, Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck announced.

The legislation prohibits the use of fake blood, real or prop firearms, or simulations of gunshots or explosions in school security demonstrations.

Based on an upswing in COVID infections, the masking mandate would stay in place, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday, without detailing how.

Wannabe school bus drivers in New Jersey, for at least the next couple of months, won't have to be mechanical experts in order to secure a license.

The 45-minute test was administered in September and October, designed to offer immediate results to educators.

Cases were rising sharply in New Jersey schools before the holidays, and with hospitalizations now at their highest level statewide since early May 2020, there is growing evidence that children are increasingly among those needing treatment outside the home.

To start and implement a cybersecurity plan from scratch is a three- to six-month process, which must be in place by June 30 to satisfy liability insurance renewals for the 2022-23 school year.

Select school districts in New Jersey will start the new year in a remote-learning fashion, due to significant transmission of COVID-19 in their school buildings, or the threat of an outbreak.

Spike in COVID school cases mirrors the rest of New Jersey

Nick Famularo was said to be half-naked and with a woman at the school stadium, when Asbury Park Police responded to a call on Nov. 6. No arrests were made, but the locker room was a mess, a report said.

Community members packed a township board of education meeting, amid allegations and a probe of a locker room incident and a sex assault off school grounds.