Sustainable Jersey for Schools, created by Sustainable Jersey in collaboration with NJSBA, identifies resources to help schools develop sustainability programs, including financial resources and technical…
The benefits of extracurricular activities on community and student engagement, student achievement and future success have been widely researched. “Extracurricular activities are one of the…
Carsten Boethig, a former New Jersey State Police officer, and Pat McCormick, a former West Windsor Township police officer, have a combined 50 years of…
In December 1975, the New Jersey School Boards Association’s Delegate Assembly passed a resolution that endorsed a Code of Ethics for School Board Members. This…
Sometimes school board members get drawn into debates on public education, its merits, and the question of who should pay for our schools. Not too…
No issue more uniformly affected school districts throughout New Jersey during the last school year than the introduction of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness…
Your superintendent informs the board that the high school principal called. The principal said that Mary and John Jones, the parents of James Jones, a…
The 2015 calendar year brought about the most sweeping changes in school official ethics in more than two decades. It began in January when the…
“He bites, right?” That was one of the first questions I was asked by a student as she eagerly, but apprehensively, approached my dog, Baxter,…
In 2013, the National School Boards Association Board of Directors requested that NJSBA lead a research project on student health and wellness and school climate…
As Hurricane Sandy surged toward the New Jersey coast in October 2012, Toms River school officials were ready. The cafetorium at Toms River High School…