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The educational disruption to New Jersey students due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been extreme by all measures. But with increasing numbers of vaccinated adults in the state and new COVID-19 cases dropping, attention (and planning) is turning to how schools can begin returning to normal for the new school year this fall. A wide range of challenges deserve consideration: Instructional - How will teaching be different once virtually all students are back in the classroom? How will technology...

The Community Schools Reading Intervention program was developed by elementary school officials and Mercer Street Friends during the pandemic. A nonprofit in Trenton, N.J., is helping younger students read at grade level. Bernie Flynn, the CEO of Mercer Street Friends, said the Community Schools Reading Intervention program was developed in partnership with elementary school officials during the pandemic. During a ceremony at Trenton’s Luis Muñoz-Rivera Elementary School, first and second...

Lawmakers push for court-ordered counseling. Children who have witnessed domestic violence could soon be eligible to receive court-ordered counseling under a bill that cleared a Senate committee last week. “This is going to be so life-changing for so many people, especially the children, because it gives the children an opportunity to have access to care and access to services immediately,” Darian Eletto, the chief clinical officer of behavioral health services at Bergen New Bridge Medical...