New Jersey Schools

Bottom Line? Cory Booker Has Got It!

Erin Schrode | Posted 05.17.2012

Erin Schrode

The power of Cory Booker entered my life and quickly spread to family, friends, classmates, teachers, you name it. Everyone seemed to have the same response upon discovering this new breed of political force... this guy is the real deal.

New Jersey High-Stakes Test Will No Longer Ask 3rd-Graders To Reveal A Secret

AP | Posted 05.13.2012

TRENTON, N.J. -- State education officials will no longer use a standardized test question that asked third-graders to reveal a secret and write about...

Bear Crashes Into Elementary School, Chaos Ensues

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.08.2012

Chaos ensued at Ogdensburg Elementary School in Ogdensburg, N.J., after a bear crashed through a glass door and ran through the hallway, CBS New York ...

A New Take on 'No Excuses' -- Tackling Poverty to Provide Meaningful Opportunity

John H. Jackson | Posted 05.15.2012

John H. Jackson

We all know that factors related to poverty can limit learning in a number of ways. It's time to take apply the "no excuses" doctrine to systems reforms.

A New Take on 'No Excuses' -- Tackling Poverty to Provide Meaningful Opportunity

John Jackson | Posted 04.25.2012

John Jackson

We all know that factors related to poverty can limit learning in a number of ways. It's time to take apply the "no excuses" doctrine to systems reforms.

Teacher Accused Of Telling 2nd-Grader She Looked 'Too Sexy' For Gym

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 04.24.2012

Marco Inskip, a 40-year-old substitute teacher at Charles L. Spragg Elementary School in Egg Harbor City, N.J., has been accused of telling a 7-year-o...

Middle School Bully's Paralyzing Punch Nets $4.2 Million Settlement

AP | Posted 04.18.2012

RAMSEY, N.J. — A New Jersey school district has agreed to pay $4.2 million to settle a lawsuit by a middle school student who was paralyzed when...

Teaching Software Flooding Into New Jersey Classrooms

| Posted 04.11.2012

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. A computer voice guides 12-year-old Amir Accoo to spell the words he hears through his...

New Jersey Middle School A 'No Hugging' Zone

AP | Posted 05.23.2012

ABERDEEN TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A New Jersey school superintendent says there's no policy against hugging in the district, and says the issue of middle sch...

Janitors Suspended For Binding, Gagging Students In Bathroom

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.05.2012

Two janitors from Gregory Elementary School in Long Beach, NJ., have been placed on paid suspension after they allegedly bound and gagged two 10-year-...

3 Still In Critical Condition After Fatal New Jersey School Bus Crash

AP | BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI | Posted 04.18.2012

CHESTERFIELD, N.J. — The National Transportation Safety Board is examining how seat belt use factored into the New Jersey school bus crash that ...

New Jersey School Bus Crash Kills 1, Injures 17

AP | BETH DeFALCO | Posted 04.17.2012

CHESTERFIELD, N.J. — A dump truck collided with a bus carrying elementary schoolchildren on Thursday, killing an 11-year-old daughter of a state...

Documents For $100 Million Facebook Pledge Ordered Public

AP | By DAVID PORTER | Posted 01.30.2012

NEWARK, N.J. -- The state's largest city must produce a list of documents related to a $100 million pledge to its public schools from Facebook founder...

Application For Hebrew Charter School In New Jersey Raises Concern

The New York Times | Michael Winerip | Posted 03.10.2012

In the last couple of years, Sharon Akman, a real estate agent, applied to the state of New Jersey three times to open a new charter school in the Hig...

Middle School Principal Accused Of Recording Boys Showering

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.28.2011

Patrick Lott, Bernardsville Middle School assistant principal, has been arrested for allegedly recording boys showering at Immaculata High School in S...

Teacher Faces Sanction For Verbally Abusing Special Needs Student

AP | Posted 11.18.2011

DEPTFORD, N.J. -- A New Jersey teacher faces discipline after being recorded telling a special-needs student that he was a "tard" and responding sarca...

School Bus Driver Accused Of DUI, Child Endangerment

AP | Posted 01.10.2012

PHILADELPHIA -- A New Jersey bus driver has been charged with drunken driving after a middle school student texted home with "Mommy I think our bus dr...

Judge: Teacher Should Lose Job Over Outrageous Facebook Post

AP | Posted 01.09.2012

NEWARK, N.J. -- A New Jersey administrative law judge has ruled that a first-grade teacher who wrote that she was a "warden for future criminals" on F...

Merit Pay For Schools May Make The Grade In New Jersey

Associated Press | Angela Delli Santi | Posted 01.01.2012

TRENTON, N.J.--The leader of the New Jersey Senate said he won't stand in the way of a bill introducing merit pay into classrooms, so long as it singl...

Schools Letting In Advertisers To Help Cover Budget Cuts

Posted 12.17.2011

The interiors of 16 schools in Pennsylvania's Bucks County Pennsbury School District will be decorated a bit differently this year: They're the new ho...

Group To Protest School Board Over Teacher's Anti-Gay Facebook Posts

Posted 12.17.2011

Gay rights activists are calling on community members to protest at a New Jersey school board meeting to take action against a Union Township high sch...

Teacher's Facebook Post Calls Homosexuality 'Sin' That 'Breeds Like Cancer'

Posted 12.13.2011

A New Jersey teacher is under investigation for anti-gay remarks she allegedly posted on her Facebook that criticize a lesbian, gay, bisexual and tran...

Jamey Rodemeyer's Suicide Sheds Spotlight, Caution For Teens

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 11.29.2011

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Taunted since grade school for hanging out with girls, 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer told his parents things were finally getting ...

'Country's Toughest Anti-bullying Law" Marks Anniversary Of Student Suicide

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 11.23.2011

NEWARK, N.J. — Does one second-grader saying another has "cooties" rise to the level of bullying? That is just one question emerging from new le...

Booker To Release 'Whatever We Can Find' On Facebook Donation Documents Cited In Suit

West Ward, N.J. Patch | Joshua Wilwohl | Posted 11.12.2011

The mayor of New Jersey's largest city did an about-face Monday after saying he would release documents requested by the American Civil Liberties Unio...