Mental Health

Newsflash: We Never Needed to Close Schools or Mask Kids During COVID

New Jersey students' "staggering" learning loss during COVID school closures is not news. Here's what is: those school closures and…

2 years ago

MCKENNA: Is Public Education on Life Support?

Laura McKenna is an education writer based in New Jersey. You can find her at www.lauramckenna.com. This was originally published at Laura McKenna’s…

2 years ago

DEMINISKI: New Jersey’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Is a Gay Kid’s Worst Nightmare

Jeff Deminski is a talk show host on 101.5 where this first appeared. Some are calling it the "Don’t Say…

2 years ago

‘We Can’t Breathe’: Elizabeth City Community Members Assail District Leadership

At Elizabeth Board of Education’s public meeting last Thursday, racist social media posts by Superintendent Olga Hugelmeyer’s husband weren’t the…

2 years ago

NJ GOP Releases Proposal to Repeal Murphy Administration’s New Sex Ed Standards

Senator Holly Schepisi and Senate Republican Leader Steven Oroho have introduced new legislation that would repeal controversial sex education mandates…

3 years ago

MCKENNA: Reclaiming Our Kids’ Mental Health, Or, Strange Times Call for Strange Parenting

Laura McKenna is an education writer based in New Jersey. You can find her at www.lauramckenna.com. This was originally published at Laura McKenna’s…

3 years ago

MCKENNA: Remote Education Sucked. Now What?

Laura McKenna is an education writer based in New Jersey. You can find her here (www.lauramckenna.com). This was originally published at Laura…

3 years ago

New Jersey Parent Begs Murphy To Permit Option of Virtual Learning During Pandemic

Anamika Roy-Choudhury lives in Bridgewater and has two children in public district schools. She is a member of a large…

3 years ago

Local Union Places a Coffin With an Image of a Dead Body in Front of This Elementary School

Children arriving for their second day of school at Lincoln Elementary School in Edison were greeted by a funeral casket…

3 years ago

Newark Student: ‘Covid Turned Me Into a Mental Health Activist and My School Listened’

Dashawn Sheffield, a rising 11th-grader at Uncommon Schools' North Star Academy Washington Park High School in Newark, explains why he…

3 years ago