Education

JERSEY CITY, NJ - New Jersey City University (NJCU) will award 1,876 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees in a double ceremony during its 2022 Commencement exercises on Thursday, June 2 at the Prudential Center in Newark.

The first ceremony is scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m. and will include graduates from the School of Business and the College of Professional Studies. The second ...

CHATHAM, NJ -- A group of Chatham mothers came before the Chatham Board of Education to voice their concerns about specific lessons being taught in health classes in the district at the regular meeting of the Chatham Board of Education on Monday night.

The Chatham moms, who belong to a local chapter of the Moms for Liberty parental rights organization, also spoke out against the new state ...

PISCATAWAY, NJ – In many ways, Kamil Skup’s journey to graduation day at Rutgers can be traced to 1979, when his father and avowed supporter of dissident Lech Walesa’s Solidarity trade union was barred by communist authorities from returning to his native Poland.

“He had come here to visit and had to stay here,” said Piscataway’s Skup. “He ...

WOODLAND PARK, NJ - Students at Memorial Middle School recently came together for their first assembly in over two years. The Woodland Park Municipal Alliance Against Alcoholism & Drug Abuse, the Woodland Park Police Department, and James Chitty and John Plunkett from BlueCrest Recovery Center, in Woodland Park, spoke to the students with a simple message: drugs and alcohol lead to a ...

WOODLAND PARK, NJ - The Woodland Park Board of Education recently held a public hearing for and adopted its 2022-2023 school district operating budget.

The total budget is $20,160,842. The local tax levy, the amount to be raised by taxation is $17,788,517, which is up $348,794 from the current year’s spending plan, or .11 percent. Local school district property taxes for the Borough ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ –  Facebook recently reminded Abby Merrill about her first Rutgers Day, stirring memories of the afternoon her heart melted at the sight of baby pigs and other animals on Cook Campus.

Little did the communications major – or any of the other 100,000 people who attended the event in 2019 - know that would be the last Rutgers Day for a while.

That this ...

LITTLE FALLS, NJ - Passaic Valley High School recently received a grant from the Passaic County Film Commission. The funds will go toward its filmmaking program. 

According to Councilman Al Kahwaty, who co-chairs the commission along with West Milford's Bob Nicholson, the grant was started to provide filmmaking equipment to schools trying their best in the Passaic ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – A $665 million development project envisioned as a place where innovations are hatched, developed and brought to market to benefit people across the planet will have an Irish accent.

Atlantic Technological University (ATU), one of Ireland’s largest multi-campus universities with an enrollment of more than 20,000 students, will be a tenant at the New Jersey ...

WOODLAND PARK, NJ - The newly formed Woodland Park Educational Foundation kicked off its first fundraiser at the Woodland Park Health Fair last Saturday - "A Building Block to the Future."

They are selling engraved pavers that will line the walkway entrance to Memorial Field Complex on Memorial Drive. The pavers cost $125 each and can be engraved with four lines with ...

TRENTON, NJ — Gov. Phil Murphy has put planned gender identity and sexual orientation lessons on hold for first and second-graders after it outraged some parents and lawmakers.

Under new sex education guidelines that was slated to start in September, a 30-minute lesson called “Pink, Blue and Purple” aimed to teach 6-year-old students to define ...