Student Safety

Elizabeth District Staff Member Accused of Carrying a Gun Around Kids But No One’s Told the Parents

Walter Evers, a staff member at Elizabeth County Public Schools, has been charged with possession of a handgun with a…

2 years ago

Murphy Signs Critical School Security Legislation to Help First Responders Protect Students and Teachers

Governor Phil Murphy today signed bill S2426 into law, requiring all public and nonpublic schools in New Jersey to submit…

2 years ago

Murphy Administration Defends Elimination of School-Based Mental Health Services.

This is a press release. For counterpoint, see here.  After several weeks of public and stakeholder input, and in response…

2 years ago

Students, Youth Leaders to Host a March to Demand More School and Mental Health Resources, Less Policing

Students will march  to demand more counselors, more transparency in school policies, and restorative practices that include the voices of…

2 years ago

Legislative Black and Latino Caucuses Condemn Murphy’s Plan to Eliminate School-Based Youth Services Programs

The New Jersey Legislature’s Joint Committee on the Public Schools, statutorily empowered with oversight of its public schools, convened a…

2 years ago

Ocean Township High School Has a Database That Tells Staff Whether Parents Should Be Informed of Student Gender Identity

This is an email from a staff member at Ocean Township High School which was flagged by Robert Pondiscio, a…

2 years ago

BREAKING: CDC Adds Covid-19 To Childhood Immunization Schedule; NJ School Mandate Unlikely

Today the a committee of the Centers for Disease Control voted unanimously to add Covid-19 vaccines to the U.S. childhood,…

2 years ago

Camden County Will Install Opioid Overdosing Boxes in All Public and Parochial Schools to Combat Drug Crisis

The Board of Commissioners joined state and local officials on Thursday to unveil a new program that will install secure…

2 years ago

Piperno, Eulner: Murphy Is Delegating Student Mental Health Services to a Dysfunctional State Agency and Ignoring Pleas of School Districts

Ed. Note: New Jersey Assemblywomen Marilyn Piperno and Kim Euler oppose Gov. Phil Murphy's plan to abolish school-based mental health…

2 years ago

Three Adults Charged With Inciting a Riot at Trenton Central High; District Issues Statement, DOE Sits on Its Hands

Back in June, L.A. Parker of the Trentonian noted that “nothing had changed” at Trenton Central High School since 2005…

2 years ago