(NJ Spotlight News)NJ Moms for Liberty say sex and gender issues in Title IX revamp have spurred membership drive
(NJ Spotlight News)NJ Moms for Liberty say sex and gender issues in Title IX revamp have spurred membership drive
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NJ’s party-line system is just one of the barriers to fresh faces

They say rollback of protections for transgender students in some districts makes schools less safe and welcoming
(Ted Goldberg/NJ Spotlight News)GOP sees potential for big gains in voter concerns about culture-war issues in public education
(Hannah Gross/NJ Spotlight News)Parental rights advocates show up at emergency meeting to proclaim support

Interview: Patrick Murray, Monmouth University Polling Institute
NJ Spotlight NewsCase involves LGBTQ-related rules in Marlboro, Manalapan and Middletown districts

Report found 2,500-plus instances of books banned from public schools in 2021-22

Siperstein helped champion the new state law that took effect Friday. It allows the registrar to amend birth certificates based on how people identify themselves, ...

A package of transgender rights bills recently cleared the Legislature and await Gov. Phil Murphy’s signature, the largest of which allows residents to change their ...

Elizabeth Haines supervises the Social Cognition Lab at William Paterson University. She says gender stereotypes are as strong today as they were 30 or 40 ...

Alleged Bridgegate conspirator, defendant Bill Baroni takes the witness stand. With a different story of the lane closures. Was it a traffic study or political ...

Life in Exxon's contamination zone. Light Rail. Could extending it create jobs? Questioning paid sick leave. Is it constitutional? Replacing Andrew Jackson with a Jersey ...

Center for American Women and Politics Scholar Kelly Dittmar discusses the intricacies and expectations around gender that both men and women face when running for ...