NJ Board of Education declines to pause sex education standards
The request to delay the new standards was rebuffed on procedural grounds, but the commissioner and the board president defended them as appropriate.
Kathy Goldenberg
Don't forget social toll of school changes, student leader urges
Between losses of key milestones, the decrease of socialization and social-distance changes, even reopened schools likely will be tough on students.
NJ plan: Skip 10th grade standardized tests, add geometry to math exam
Starting in a few years, state standardized tests won't be given to sophomores, but graduation tests for juniors will include geometry as well as Algebra I.
NJ Board of Ed refuses, for now, to advance new graduation rules
Rebuffing the Murphy administration, at least temporarily, the State Board of Education declined to green light changes to high school assessment program.
High school PARCC tests won't be cut back as much as planned
The state Board of Education endorsed scaling back high school standardized exams from seven to five – but not to three, as the Murphy administration sought.