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Residents in many Jersey towns will have another choice to make when they enter the voting booth next week as more school districts are moving their elections to November.

A teacher in Danvers, Massachusetts and another teacher in Sparks, Nevada were murdered this week, with students as the alleged killers in both tragedies.

Lacey Township is poised to be the state's 19th school district to implement random drug testing for its high school students.

The federal Breakfast at School program is expanding in the Garden State.

Lakewood school district is facing an almost four million dollar shortfall after suffering some unexpected expenses and a spike of students needing buses.

The New Jersey Dept. of Education (DOE) is exploring the idea of allowing only those who graduate with a 3.0 grade point average or better to teach in this state.

A New Jersey lawmaker is pushing a plan to raise the bar on public education in the Garden State.

There's been a big shift in how many school districts take money from soda companies and ban junk food from vending machines, health officials say.

Big changes are coming to high school equivalency test nationwide next year.

Often criticized as too prescriptive and all-consuming, standardized tests have support among parents, who view them as a useful way to measure both students' and schools' performances, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll.