Brick schools

It's been a years long fight by school districts across New Jersey, including here in Ocean and Monmouth Counties, to get back the state aid stripped away under the guidelines of the S2 School Funding Formula.

The Toms River Regional School District in the now ongoing 2021-22 academic year is hemorrhaging $8-million dollars in state aid cuts due to the School Funding Formula.

The Toms River Regional School District is asking its staff as well as parent and the community to have phones fully charged because they have some homework they are asking you to do for them.

Following expected but undesired state aid cuts to dozens of school districts following Governor Phil Murphy's address on Friday, 10th District Lawmakers are once again making a push to restore funding for several Ocean County schools.

Brick Schools like 199 other districts across the state are being directly impacted by the S2 legislation or school funding formula in a negative way and are looking for both funding and answers from the state of New Jersey.

Senate President Steve Sweeney was the guest speaker at the Ocean County Mayor's Association meeting discussing a variety of topics including the School Funding Formula and Immunization Bill while greeted by protestors outside in Toms River.

Students, teachers, administrators, and parents from the Toms River Regional School District took off in busloads and cars to the statehouse in Trenton Tuesday to protest the state aid cuts that have put classes, activities and staff jobs on the line.

The Acting Superintendent of the Brick Township School District has released a statement in response to the recent report of a parent calling for cameras on school buses after she said her child was punched and choked by another student.

Brick Township Police are at the scene of a home on Sprucewood Drive after a home health aide called police to report that her patient had a rifle and she ran out frightened.