Schools

Healthier food choices are at the forefront across New Jersey as school districts statewide commemorate National School Lunch Week.

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Are you worried about how safe your child's school bus is?

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Statistics now show that no county in New Jersey is without gang activity. Gangs are no longer just an urban problem. They have crept into suburbia and even rural areas of the state.

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The onetime manager of transportation services for the Hazlet and Piscataway public school systems, and her mother, face trial for allegedly skimming a total of $565,772 from the districts.

Michelle Pumilia, 39, of Union Beach, and Virginia Lisay, 68, who lives with her daughter, wre arrested by investigators from New Jersey Attorney General Jeff Chiesa's office and released without bail

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Two high school students in Mercer County were hospitalized with MRSA infections over the past several weeks. The issue at Steinert High School allegedly started within the locker rooms, which have been thoroughly cleaned since.

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A group of retired military leaders has become the latest to call on schools across the nation to eliminate junk foods, calling obesity among our youth a threat to our national security.

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There is a lot of good news in the Advocates for Children Of New Jersey's (ACNJ) 2nd annual School Breakfast report.

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The school librarian is much more than just a keeper of the book collection in many New Jersey districts. But, these "information specialists" have been dwindling in numbers, another victim of budget cuts.

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With only about half of the states schools meeting their goals for improving student performance last year, Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf is announcing a new plan for the coming years that will create meaningful improvements in the standards for education.

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