Schools

Proposed legislation aims to protect students and teacher from a wide range of threats.

An arrest has been made in connection to an incident that prompted a lockdown at a Toms River school on Thursday. Police arrested Stephen Wise, 59, formerly of Pine Beach, after they determined he had no legitimate reason to be on the property at Washington Street Elementary...

School bullying has long been a hot-button issue, but new research finds that the answer may not lie within rules set by adults.

A new measure aims to fight back against chronic absenteeism at New Jersey schools across the state.

It's hard to believe that it's already time to start thinking about sending the kids back to school, but it is, and we need your help to send Ocean County's kids back to school with everything that they need!

A new in-depth analysis of the nation's public schools, state-by-state, finds New Jersey schools ranked third overall.

The Toms River Regional School District is one of 17 public school districts chosen to take part in the NJ Department of Education's innovateNJ community for the 2015-16 school year. The program is designed to encourage schools to develop and share best classroom practices statewide...

It's Teacher Appreciation Week!  Teacher's this is your week!

Cindy Botwinick is leading a petition drive to convince the Toms River School District to begin the school day later than 7:15 a.m. The mother of three has collected more than 500 signatures so far by going door-to-door and soliciting names online.

Many New Jersey schools have surveillance cameras that can stream live video to a remote location. A new bill in Trenton would allow police to have access to the live stream in cases of emergency.