Tag: School

RED BANK – The number of books challenged in libraries across the country increased by 65% in 2023 over the previous year.

Superintendents from across the state testified at a state Senate Education Committee hearing March 14, responding to a controversial announcement about public school funding for 2025.

The Holmdel Board of Education voted during its Sept. 27 meeting to abolish its transgender student policy, state Department of Education guidance Policy 5756. A second confirmation vote, slated for its next regular meeting in October, will officially repeal the policy if it passes. Until then, Policy 5756 remains in effect.

Schools opened this week, but some students in Shrewsbury had to find their own transportation. In what a few parents called a “shocking” decision, the Shrewsbury Borough School District will not offer courtesy busing or aid-in-lieu payments to non-public school students for the 2023-24 school year.

The township and school district collaborated to organize an inaugural transition fair for high school students with intellectual and developmental disabilities to help them transition to independent adult life after school.

New Jersey City University, based in Jersey City with a two-year-old campus on Fort Monmouth, continues enacting measures to regain its financial footing and keep the Oceanport campus open, including offering its facilities to outside groups.

The Board of Trustees of New Jersey City University (NJCU) is considering vacating its year-old Fort Monmouth campus as it enacts cost reduction measures following June’s revelation of a financial emergency at the 92-year-old Jersey City-based public institution.

A feasibility study commissioned by the Henry Hudson Regional Tri-District has determined that if the neighboring boroughs of Atlantic Highlands and Highlands were to consider the formation of a full-service, regionalized, pre-K-12 school system, the inclusion of Sea Bright students would create the most financially beneficial scenario.

As the nation once again grieves the loss of young children and staff members in the aftermath of an elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, local administrators, boards of education and police departments in the Two River area have reinforced security rules and ramped up police presence on campuses. 

RED BANK – The existence of the 23-year-old Red Bank Charter School has “recklessly added and condoned a structure” of segregation in Red Bank for decades, argued Jared Rumage, Ed.D, the superintendent of Red Bank Public Schools, at last Wednesday’s borough council meeting.