NEWARK, NJ — Newark took another step toward pairing every student with a remote learning device thanks to a donation from the WeLoveU Foundation, an international disaster relief charity. 

The organization delivered 100 Chromebooks and tablets to Roberto Clemente Elementary School on Thursday, closing the gap of remaining students at Roberto Clemente without a device, according to ...

NEWARK, NJ — Though the 13- and 14-year-old students of Philip’s Academy Charter School may be a ways away from casting ballots, teachers and administrators weren’t about to let them kick up their feet this election season. 

Students returned to school for the first time since last march on Thursday to write and send postcards to 500 unregistered voters in North Carolina ...

State releases latest guidance on how teachers will be evaluated, including those working online only

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What it is: The state Department of Education this week provided the ...

NEWARK, NJ — The Newark lead service line replacement program is now in its final stage, the city announced Monday, just two months after it declared its lead levels below the federal safety standard of 15.4 parts per billion (ppb).

Mayor Ras Baraka, whose line at his South Ward home has already been replaced, went through the waiting and testing period following installation. He said he ...

TRENTON – Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday signed the Fiscal Year 2021 (FY 2021) Appropriations Act into law. The governor said the revised spending plan manages to protect core priorities and deliver middle-class tax relief during the historic fiscal crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The budget plan also fully reestablishes the millionaires tax that expired in 2010, instituting ...

TRENTON, NJ – Gov. Phil Murphy began his COVID-19 press briefing in Trenton on Wednesday, Sept. 30, by reporting on the successful reopening of schools overall in the state, despite 11 "outbreaks" of schools with two or more cases. 

“Our overarching aim remains ensuring that our schools do not become the epicenter of new outbreaks,” Murphy added. “We have ...

NEW JERSEY - Governor Murphy has updated the travel advisory. As of Tuesday, September 29, the Governor removed Arizona and Virginia. Currently, there are 34 states and territories are the travel advisory list. 

Visitors coming from AL, AK, AR, CO, DE, FL, GA, GU, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NC, ND, OK, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, WV, WI, WY need to ...

White House to send first batch within couple of weeks. News comes as state announces hundreds of new cases, 40% in Ocean County.

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New Jersey could nearly double its daily coronavirus ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Juggling diaper changes and Zoom meetings might be a good combination for some Americans.

A new survey by researchers at Rutgers University reveals that working parents are happier with their job, and they are getting more done, than people without children.

Researchers attribute the surprising results to a sharp increase in the number of men helping with childcare and ...

Some NJ legislators want a law requiring flu vaccines for students. Activists say COVID precautions are enough

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Concern about a potential autumn “twindemic” of COVID-19 and ...

NEWARK, NJ — Brass from Newark, greater Essex County and the state gathered at the city’s 5th Precinct on Wednesday to bid ado to Darnell Henry, the Chief of Newark Police Division who helped implement trailblazing policing strategies during his tenure. 
 
Appointed as chief by Mayor Ras Baraka in 2016, Henry departs from NPD after a 26-year record of service to spend more ...

NEWARK, NJ —  Following the Civil War, freed Black slaves in the United States were denied the “40 acres and a mule” promised to them under the Special Field Orders No. 15, a barrier to capital that set the tone for today’s economic disparities. 

Newark is now repurposing the proclamation as a rallying cry for a $100 million investment fund that ...

Task force considers benefit reforms, training and more to help workers

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State tax credits to encourage companies to offer worker training, 401(k)-style accounts to help people pay to ...

NEWARK, NJ — In the days before everyone’s established way of life came to a crashing halt, Newark resident Monifa Kincaid was just getting into her groove as a working artist, “pumping it up” to hit upcoming pop-up events and make more connections. 

But as the story goes, the dream-crusher COVID-19 came, and Kincaid, a former choreographer and dance teacher who ...

There are two parts to Public Question No. 2. Here are the details, who would benefit and what it could cost.

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MONTCLAIR, NJ - Nearly four hundred Montclair residents gathered and marched on Saturday afternoon in Rand Park calling for people to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming Presidential election. 

A group of women calling themselves Suburban Moms Against Re-Electing Trump (S.M.A.R.T.), organized the rally that included speakers like NJ Senator Nia ...

NEWARK, NJ — More than 100 people outraged by the grand jury decision not to indict the officers in Louisville, Kentucky who shot 26-year-old Breonna Taylor convened at Essex County courthouse on Thursday for a rally, where organizers and officials pushed next steps for the fight against police brutality in their corner of the ring. 

Larry Hamm, Newark’s most prominent ...

Long before she became a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent nearly a decade in Newark as a professor at the School of Law–Newark, now Rutgers Law School.

Ginsburg, 87, who died today after a battle with pancreatic cancer, worked at the law school from 1963 to 1972, a period when it was at the forefront of the social justice movement.

Ginsberg had graduated ...

NEWARK, NJ — When Maria Lopez-Nunez, director of environmental justice and community development for Ironbound Community Corporation, rattles off all the industrial entities impacting the quality of life for residents in her community, she needs both hands to count. 

Among the culprits: a garbage incinerator, the largest sewage waste treatment plant in New Jersey, two power ...