The Atlantic County School Boards Association, Burlington County School Boards Association, Camden County School Boards Association and Cape May County School Boards Association recently held “Eighth-Grade Dialogues,” in which they had students from local middle schools discuss their experiences. The...
Join the New Jersey School Boards Association on Friday, May 10, for our Spring Conference, which will include tracks focusing on a variety of areas. The event will be held at the Conference Center at Mercer County College from 9:30...
The New Jersey Department of Education recently announced $7 million in a second round of preliminary grant awards for the implementation of high impact tutoring in 57 additional school districts and charter schools. The funding will help the schools establish highly effective,...
The fiscal year 2025 budget season continued its busy pace over the last week as the Senate Education Committee heard testimony from invited guests, including the New Jersey School Boards Association, regarding the school funding formula. Both chambers of the...
Following the cancellation of its Feb. 20 meeting, the School Ethics Commission held a special meeting Feb. 27 and discussed three ethics complaints pursuant to its previous regulations, and four ethics complaints pursuant to its new/amended regulations; adopted seven decisions...
The New Jersey Department of Education’s Office of Special Education is offering a virtual presentation to explain the state’s bill of rights for deaf students. This session will describe the components of the communication plan that is required in the...
On March 6, the New Jersey Department of Education published the Standards Transparency and Mastery Platform, which is designed to support local educational agencies’ utilization of New Jersey Student Learning Standards to update curricula. The Division of Teaching and Learning Services...
Arleen Ramos-Szatmary, the coordinator of School Nutrition Programs at the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, recently sent a letter to participants in the national school lunch and school breakfast programs with additional details on a new program that seeks to address food...
On March 7, Acting Education Commissioner Kevin Dehmer and other state and local education officials welcomed a delegation from the Taiwan Ministry of Education, as part of a partnership designed to promote joint projects and academic exchange in language education...