Education

Rutgers University kicks off a centennial celebration of the performer, activist and athlete's graduation in 1919.

Hunger Free New Jersey Director Adele LaTourette says that’s because some students who are eligible for the program aren’t taking advantage of it.

Following Murphy's second round of preschool education funding to a little over thirty districts, we take a look at how the aid is helping some of these communities.

The law requires school districts to develop their own curricula to teach students about the contributions of LGBT and disabled individuals in history.

Named in the memory of a teen who died by suicide, the bill would add transparency, accountability and engage parents.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law a bill requiring the state's public schools to install so-called panic alarms.

Camden eighth-grade students worked with the Department of Environmental Protection to study the effects of black carbon on health and the environment.

Newark district schoolteachers got tips from charter school colleagues at a workshop on how to improve students' reading comprehension.

Murphy announced new initiatives to boost New Jersey's STEM education, specifically in computer science and math.

Is the state's higher education system set up to leave minority students "locked out"? The co-author of a recent report says the state has gross inequities in its distribution of higher education ...

Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School's deficient heating system has students wearing winter coats in classrooms and teachers bringing space heaters from home to get through a day of learning.

Gov. Phil Murphy came to Woodbridge to talk about his pledge for full school funding.

A couple hundred members of New Jersey’s largest teachers union rallied in Trenton with boxes containing 116,000 petitions demanding that lawmakers and the governor support a package of bills to ...

Gov. Phil Murphy put off a much-anticipated meeting with legislative leaders in favor of a sit down with preschoolers where he announced the release of a second round of funding for full-day ...

In an unanimous decision in a three-judge appellate court panel, the PARCC test was struck down as violating state law. The court gave the Department of Education a 30-day stay to potentially appeal ...