South Orange-Maplewood school officials filed a bias complaint, after a high school athlete was briefly kept from playing due to her hairstyle. It's a style protected from racial discrimination by state law.
Felicia LoAlbo-Melendez was 11 when she died, days after being found unresponsive in a middle school bathroom. Her mother says the Mount Holly school failed to step in amid a pattern of bullying.
While most of New Jersey's more than 590 school districts have added full day Kindergarten to their programs by 2023 — this handful still have not. One district is voting on the issue Nov. 7.
This November, Just over 18-hundred NJ board of education candidates are registered with nearly 15-hundred seats up for grabs. Data from the New Jersey School Boards Association shows clusters of competitive races.