NEW JERSEY
Burlington County Times
Downe Township voter referendum on armed guard rejected at the polls
A ballot question authorizing Downe Township’s education board to fund an armed school guard for its coming 2024-25 budget year was rejected on Tuesday, according to unofficial results.
Daily Record
Ramapo Indian Hills Board of Education election results 2024
Two of three incumbents were defeated in contested races for seats on the Ramapo Indian Hills Board of Education in Tuesday’s election.
MyCentralJersey.com
State, school districts to meet in appeals court over transgender policies in NJ schools (yahoo news)
School boards that have been targeting the state-mandated privacy rights of school-age LGBTQ+ children — especially the right to come out to their parents in their own time — will soon have their day in court, facing off with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office over the civil rights of transgender students.
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NJ.com
Teachers can save up to $18K by training in this new program to help fill staffing shortages
Teachers in New Jersey who want to work with special education students and in other shortage areas will be able to earn their credentials online and more affordably, after the state Department of Education approved five new programs through the New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning last month.
Applying for teaching jobs may get a whole lot easier in N.J.
A bill to create a web portal for all certified teachers and substitutes seeking jobs passed the state Senate last week. The measure is designed to help address the teacher shortage.
N.J.-based school lunch payment company rips off parents with ‘junk fees,’ lawsuit says
A New Jersey-based company that processes payments for public school lunch programs is unfairly charging parents as much as $100 million in unnecessary “junk fees” each year, according to a new federal lawsuit.
In language arts, third graders improved from 5.9% meeting expectations in 2023, to 10.8% in 2024. The state average was 37.2%. Gains were also made by fourth, fifth, and sixth graders.
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Education Week
Is Handwriting a Lost Art? What One College’s Kerfuffle Over Cursive Can Tell Us
Since 2014, there’s been a resurgence of cursive and handwriting education.
‘If We Don’t Vote, Nothing Is Going to Change’: First-Time Voters Report Back
As the polls closed on the 2024 presidential election on the East Coast, six teenagers on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming were winding down from a hectic day. They’d just cast their first vote in a presidential election.
Massachusetts Voters Poised to Ditch High School Exit Exam
The support could foreshadow public opinion on state standardized testing in general.
