A hearing is scheduled for next week in state court in a desegregation lawsuit that could have monumental impacts on public education across New Jersey.
Gov. Phil Murphy endorsed having the state borrow $500 million to help pay to replace lead water service lines and remediate lead-based paint in homes.
In the last quarter-century, Republicans have shrunk from 58 to 26 seats in the Assembly. Democrats are jockeying for even more gains in once-red suburbs.
New Jersey's latest actions related to lead in school water: Tests every three years, a searchable database of reports and priority for infrastructure funds.
Panel also calls for restricting online sales, increasing penalties for stores and employee who sell to people under 21 & a possible ban on menthol cigarettes.
Rebuffing the Murphy administration, at least temporarily, the State Board of Education declined to green light changes to high school assessment program.