NJ lawmakers want limits on immigration information students put on college aid forms

Interview: Hannah Gross, NJ Spotlight News' education and child welfare writer

Assembly committee clears raft of bills that address teacher recruitment and retention

Pending legislation seeks to give children tools to cope with loss of friends and family to COVID-19, social isolation, anxiety

Addressing individual issues by removing barriers, addressing costs and adding resources

Teachers ask legislators to step aside, allow them to do their job

Lawmakers in both houses of the state Legislature on Thursday took up issues that have recently made headlines: school lunch programs that impose penalties on ...

The Department of Education says it will look into the shortages in specific subject areas this summer.

Progressive agenda items were at the top of the list during Thursday's Assembly committee hearings.

The state Supreme Court rejected Gov. Christie's plea to freeze state aid at current levels and let him break union contracts to enact reforms.

New Jersey and New York have set aside inter-Port Authority competition and are instead uniting against an executive order from Trump. Christie suffers a legal ...

The school funding fight. If Christie's "Fairness Formula" cuts taxes for the rich and education for the poor, do lawmakers have a better fix? Trump ...

New Jersey Democrats haven't come up with a unified plan for school funding, but they agree that Gov. Christie's proposal, which he calls the "Fairness ...

He’s become New Jersey’s most prominent ‘temp’ worker. Jeff Chiesa says his appointment to the U.S. Senate is temporary. Plus, high honors for the man ...

Patrick Diegnan, chairman of the Assembly Education Committee, seeks further study on virtual charters schools.