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Enrollment decline was sharpest in pre-K and kindergarten, as families opted against remote learning or starting amid the COVID pandemic.

As more teachers begin to make appointments and get vaccinated, Monmouth County State Senator Declan O'Scanlon says the time is about right to resume full in-person learning at schools.

The Toms River Regional School District has laid out two sets of dates for expanding to four days a week of in-person learning.

Summer school and the option to choose to repeat a grade are among the possibilities being considered in the Legislature after two years of disruptions.

Senate President Steve Sweeney says goverment reforms will be on the table in next year's budget talks, which means tough choices ahead of state elections.

The first days of school is upon us, and so is the first case of COVID-19 in a New Jersey school.

Because of the adjustments necessitated by COVID-19, a reopening of any scale will cost more for the Garden State, not less, according to the first in a series of reports issued by New Jersey Policy Perspective.

NJEA says COVID-19 will inevitably spread in reopened schools and that decision-makers who ignore that research will be culpable if deaths result.

The state had already recommended face coverings at all times in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Because no one is really sure what the pandemic will look like in two months, the New Jersey Education Association is one of several groups backing a "National Call to Action."

For children who have been bullied in school, staying home has been their moment of relief.

Poll director Patrick Murray says there's a spirit of goodwill toward local communities and neighbors amid the coronavirus pandemic.