Gov. Phil Murphy plans to increase funds for the Community College Opportunity Grant program
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Murphy impounded the $235 million as this year’s state budget was being finalized, saying the Legislature’s revenue projections were faulty, especially in the wake of ...
The governor continues to chide lawmakers for a rejecting his key budget priorities.
There are key disagreements between the two sides on how revenue would be raised and where it would be spent.
On the quiet campus at Mercer County Community College, a battle is brewing.
Hard core budget negotiations will begin in a political atmosphere supercharged with mistrust. And that’s just among the Democrats.
Graduation season, the time of year when most students prepare to enter the job market with some newly acquired skills and unfortunately a large amount ...
County governments are taking on more municipal duties -- from tax assessing in Gloucester, to 911 services across the state, to policing in Camden.
Is the state's higher education system set up to leave minority students "locked out"? The co-author of a recent report says the state has gross ...
According to a survey, of the 419,000 students attending college in New Jersey, about one-third, or 139,000, are food insecure. Among community college students, 42 ...
Thirteen New Jersey community colleges will participate in a new, $20 million tuition grant program that could benefit 13,000 students.
This week, New Jersey launched a pilot program that will make community college free for hundreds more students in the spring of 2019. While the ...
New Jersey’s Acting Secretary for Higher Education Zakiya Smith Ellis praised the governor’s plan of tuition-free community college to the Assembly Budget Committee.
Menendez outlined a bill that, if passed, would make community colleges tuition-free.
Murphy renewed the higher education pledge he made during his campaign: free tuition at every community college throughout all 21 counties in the state.
The Democratic gubernatorial nominee touted alternative careers and said his free community college tuition plan would cost the state about $400 million.
A state Senate committee has just passed a comprehensive plan aimed at making college more affordable and student debt less onerous.
The Bridgegate defendant who sent the "time for traffic troubles" email testifies Christie was aware it was being called a political revenge scheme. She told ...
With the governor away, Republicans plan the post-Christie era. Vaccines. A health issue. Now a legal one. The safest ride in any weather. And snow, ...