New Jersey
Education advocates weigh in on New Jersey’s new mandatory climate change curriculum in schools
New Jersey is the primary state to introduce a compulsory local weather change curriculum in colleges.
The New Jersey State Board of Schooling on June 2020 adopted First Woman Tammy Murphy’s Ok-12 local weather change training. The First Woman led the hassle to combine a local weather change curriculum with the help of 130 educators.
The curriculum was scheduled to be enacted this faculty 12 months, which requires all college students to study local weather change.
New Jersey set the precedent by being the primary state within the nation to include local weather change training throughout its Ok-12 educational requirements.
NEW JERSEY SEX ED STANDARDS DISCUSSING ANAL SEX IN EIGHTH GRADE ‘AGE APPROPRIATE,’ SAYS GOV. MURPHY
Gov. Phil Murphy, D., launched a assertion on September sixth that the curriculum is the “first of its type” and “will put together and propel New Jersey college students to the highest of the ranks for the 1000’s of inexperienced economic system jobs that shall be made obtainable sooner or later.”
The New Jersey State Board of Schooling has 13 members who’re appointed by the governor. These members serve with out compensation for six-year phrases.
“New Jersey has the primary public training system within the nation, and our lecturers and college directors are well-equipped to arrange our future local weather change leaders to tackle the local weather disaster,” Governor Murphy mentioned. “Our kids are our future, and the teachings New Jersey college students will study with this new curriculum will deliver us one step nearer to constructing our inexperienced economic system and reaching and sustaining 100% clear power in New Jersey by 2050.”
HURRICANE IAN SLAMS FLORIDA AS SCHOOLS ACT AS SHELTERS: ‘READY TO ACCEPT ANYONE WITH OPEN ARMS,’ TEACHER SAYS
Ok-12 local weather change training will give attention to how local weather change has accelerated in latest many years and the way it’s impacted public well being, human society, and contributed to pure disasters.
Local weather change training was additionally adopted by the state’s curriculum commonplace referred to as New Jersey Scholar Studying Requirements. The NJSLS laid out curriculum for New Jersey’s public colleges and set “the inspiration for college districts to craft instruction and curricula.”
NJSLS’s Ok-12 local weather change training was created to arrange college students to know how and why local weather change occurs and the impression it has on society in addition to how folks can reply to it. The requirements shall be included throughout seven content material areas resembling “twenty first Century Life and Careers, Complete Well being and Bodily Schooling, Science, Social Research, Expertise, Visible and, Performing Arts, and World Languages.”
The combination of local weather change requirements into the appendices of the arithmetic and English language arts tips “are up for evaluation this 12 months.”
Nevertheless, some are against the obligatory curriculum saying it might trigger pointless panic amongst college students and provides mother and father extra freedom to decide on the place they ship their children to high school in the event that they disagree with a faculty’s curriculum.
Bethany Mandel, kids’s guide writer and homeschooling mom of 5, advised Fox Information Digital that childhood psychological well being and anxiousness ranges are at all-time highs, and research point out that local weather change alarmism is contributing to this stress.
“It’s our job as adults and oldsters to maintain sacred childhood innocence, and chorus from burdening kids with the issues of the world earlier than they’re in a position to course of what they’re being taught. New Jersey is making a alternative: they might fairly flip kids into foot troopers for the reason for local weather change vs. maintain their psychological and emotional well being secure,” she mentioned.
“New Jersey public colleges spend over $24,000 per scholar per 12 months. That funding ought to go on to households, to allow them to discover alternate options. Curriculum disagreements illustrate the necessity for college alternative. Households disagree about how they need their kids to be educated. The one-size-fits-all authorities faculty system will fail to fulfill the numerous wants of households by definition. The one approach out of this mess is to permit households to take their kids’s training {dollars} to the training suppliers that finest meet their wants and align with their values,” senior fellow on the American Federation for Youngsters Corey DeAngelis advised Fox Information Digital.
“As with each politically motivated change in curricula, our public colleges would do properly to offer balanced lesson plans that enlightened younger minds fairly than trigger panic and anxiousness. Ought to educators pursue a complete strategy, college students want to know the complexity of science and local weather modeling because it pertains to Earth’s lengthy historical past of great adjustments in local weather. They need to additionally concentrate on the secondary and tertiary financial penalties of varied coverage selections now and generations therefore,” Vice President of Schooling Coverage at California Coverage Middle Lance Christensen mentioned.
“Local weather scientists are nonetheless learning how and why our local weather is altering. It appears untimely to mandate a topic in Ok-12 that is still unresolved within the scientific neighborhood,” mentioned Patrick Wolf, Distinguished Professor of Schooling Coverage on the College of Arkansas.
REPORT CARD ON BIG LABOR UNIONS SHOW SIGNIFICANT LOSS OF TEACHER UNION MEMBERSHIP SINCE 2018
The problem of training has change into a prime concern amongst voters heading into the midterm elections. Because the pandemic, faculty board conferences have change into battlegrounds between mother and father and college board officers. Mother and father throughout the nation have protested towards COVID associated restrictions in colleges and controversial curriculum like vital race concept and gender concept. This has reignited the controversy on how a lot management mother and father have over their kids’s training.
CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP
The battle for parental management of training spawned native teams like Fishers One primarily based in Indiana and Minnesota Mother and father Alliance who launched an effort to coach and assist faculty board candidates and get mother and father concerned of their colleges and communities.
These parental rights teams hosted coaching for college board candidates throughout the state and plan to offer assist for brand spanking new faculty board members after elected to talk out towards what they deem is indoctrination.
New Jersey
Payne Tribute: Mike Johnson – New Jersey Globe
House Speaker Mike Johnson issued the following statement on the death of Rep. Donald Payne, Jr.:
“We are saddened to be informed of the passing today of Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr., who had been serving New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District since 2012, and who succeeded his father in the same position. Our prayers are offered today for his family and friends, and especially his wife, Bea, and their three children.”
New Jersey
Wildfire burning in Wharton State Forest
This story originally appeared on 6abc.
Crews are on the scene of a wildfire burning in New Jersey’s Wharton State Forest.
It started Wednesday morning and is burning in Waterford Township, Camden County and Shamong Twp., Burlington County.
Chopper video showed a large plume of smoke rising up from the forest.
New Jersey
These are the top high schools in New Jersey in 2024, report says. Is yours on the list?
Phil Murphy on NJ public education during 2024 State of State Address
Governor Phil Murphy’ discusses public education in New Jersey at the 2024 State of the State Address.
U.S. News and World Report recently released its rankings of high schools in 2024, nationally and by state.
Eight New Jersey high schools made the list of the 100 best high schools in the United States in 2024.
The highest New Jersey school on the list is High Technology High School in Lincroft which came it at No. 24 with a 100% graduation rate, a 100 score for college readiness, and an enrollment of 285 students.
A few local North Jersey schools that made the national top 100 include Bergen County Academies in Hackensack which landed in spot 63 with a 99% graduation rate, a score of 95.7 college readiness, and an enrollment of 1,116 students.
Also from Bergen County is Bergen County Technical High School in Teterboro which has an enrollment of 675, a 100% graduation rate, and a 93.3 college readiness score. Bergen County Technical High School was ranked at 90 nationally.
To put together its lists of best high schools around the country U.S. News and World Report considers six factors including college readiness (30%), state assessment proficiency (20%), state assessment performance (20%), underserved student performance (10%), college curriculum breadth (10%), and graduation rate (10%).
The 10 best public high schools in New Jersey
These are the 10 best public high schools in New Jersey in 2024 per U.S. News and World Report.
High Technology High School in Lincroft
- National ranking: No. 24
- Graduation rate: 100%
- College readiness: 100
- Enrollment: 285
Edison Academy Magnet School in Edison
- National ranking: No. 42
- Graduation rate: 100%
- College readiness: 93.8
- Enrollment: 175
Middlesex County Academy for Allied Health in Woodbridge
- National ranking: No. 58
- Graduation rate: 100%
- College readiness: 97.6
- Enrollment: 286
Bergen County Academies in Hackensack
- National ranking: No. 62
- Graduation rate: 99%
- College readiness: 95.7
- Enrollment: 1,116
Biotechnology High School in Freehold
- National ranking: No. 72
- Graduation rate: 100%
- College readiness: 98.4
- Enrollment: 317
Dr. Ronald E. McNair High School in Jersey City
- National ranking: No. 79
- Graduation rate: 100%
- College readiness: 88.0
- Enrollment: 701
Bergen County Technical High School in Teterboro
- National ranking: No. 90
- Graduation rate: 100%
- College readiness: 93.3
- Enrollment: 675
Union County Magnet High School in Scotch Plains
- National ranking: No. 95
- Graduation rate: 100%
- College readiness: 86.6
- Enrollment: 303
Academy for Information Technology in Scotch Plains
- National ranking: No. 111
- Graduation rate: 100%
- College readiness: 88.5
- Enrollment: 297
Academy for Allied Health Sciences in Scotch Plains
- National ranking: No. 193
- Graduation rate: 100%
- College readiness: 74.1
- Enrollment: 303
The 40 top public high schools in New Jersey
These are the rest of the top 40 public high schools in New Jersey per U.S. News and World Report.
- Glen Ridge High School: Glen Ridge, No. 198 nationally
- Marine Academy of Science and Technology: Highlands, No. 207 nationally
- Stem Innovation Academy of the Oranges: South Orange, No. 253 nationally
- Hunterdon Central Regional High School: Flemington, No. 258 nationally
- West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South: West Windsor, No. 313 nationally
- Monmouth County Academy of Allied Health and Science: Neptune, No. 323 nationally
- West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North: Plainsboro, No. 339 nationally
- Union County Tech: Scotch Plains, No. 346 nationally
- Millburn High School: Millburn, No. 358 nationally
- Livingston High School: Livingston, No. 405 nationally
- Chatham High School: Chatham, No. 424 nationally
- Diana C. Lobosco Stem Academy: Wayne, No. 427 nationally
- Elizabeth High School: Elizabeth, No. 436 nationally
- Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest: Demarest, No. 440 nationally
- Ridge High School: Basking Ridge, No. 454 nationally
- Central Jersey College Prep Charter School: Somerset, No. 498 nationally
- John P. Stevens High School: Edison, No. 522 nationally
- Passaic Academy for Science and Engineering: Passaic, No. 545 nationally
- Summit Senior High School: Summit, No. 549 nationally
- Montgomery High School: Skillman, No. 556 nationally
- Tenafly High School: Tenafly, No. 597 nationally
- Infinity Institute: Jersey City, No. 603 nationally
- Princeton High School: Princeton, No. 617 nationally
- Communications High School: Wall, No. 645 nationally
- Northern Highlands Regional High School: Allendale, No. 693 nationally
- Mountain Lakes High School: Mountain Lakes, No. 732 nationally
- Ridgewood High School: Ridgewood, No. 764 nationally
- Thomas Edison Energysmart Charter School: Somerset, No. 786 nationally
- Science Park High School: Newark, No. 851 nationally
- Westfield Senior High School: Westfield, No. 863 nationally
-
World1 week ago
If not Ursula, then who? Seven in the wings for Commission top job
-
Movie Reviews1 week ago
Film Review: Season of Terror (1969) by Koji Wakamatsu
-
World1 week ago
Croatians vote in election pitting the PM against the country’s president
-
News1 week ago
GOP senators demand full trial in Mayorkas impeachment
-
Politics1 week ago
Trump trial: Jury selection to resume in New York City for 3rd day in former president's trial
-
World1 week ago
The Take: How Iran’s attack on Israel unfolded
-
World1 week ago
'You are a criminal!' Heckler blasts von der Leyen's stance on Israel
-
Movie Reviews1 week ago
Movie Review: The American Society of Magical Negroes