Tina Kelley

The impact of the parental rights message was not as powerful as some had predicted.

“This year is very vitriolic on both sides,” said Josh Aikens, president of Arise NJ, a conservative-leaning nonprofit. “People are attacking people at a more extreme level.”

The Department of Education announced the preliminary grants more than three weeks after programs were to begin on Oct. 11.

Districts were to start tutoring on Oct. 11, but educators and advocates said the state communicated unclearly about the rules to apply for funding, confusing some districts.

Citing concerns about equity, financial hardships, and religious and cultural preferences, the South Orange-Maplewood School District has decided that Halloween activities will be held after school hours.

The father of three Cherry Hill High School students has filed a federal lawsuit, schools violate his rights when they do not notify parents when their kids are transgender.

Acting on information from an anonymous whistleblower, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) contends the monkey died after three surgeries due to carelessness in a neuroscience lab.

A statewide tutoring program that was supposed to begin Oct. 11 is far behind schedule, leaving educators concerned that delays are wasting learning opportunities and money.

Lawyers who sued New Jersey over its segregated schools are calling Superior Court Judge Robert T. Lougy’s ruling a win, though the case is long from over.

The State Superior Court judge in the five-year-old lawsuit over the high rates of segregation in New Jersey schools issued a decision late Friday that paves the way for a possible trial to address the problem.