NJ Department of Education

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Dr. Nathan Parker, former superintendent of Summit School District, has been named as Montclair’s new interim superintendent. Parker’s appointment was announced during a special board of education meeting at the George Inness Annex on Aug. 15. Parker...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair’s median teacher pay of $73,194 was about $181 higher than the state average for the 2018-2019 school year, but lower than some of its neighboring districts in Essex County, according to data recently released by the Department of Education. A...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair students won’t be taking the PARCC tests this spring. Instead, students will be taking a revised version of the PARCC test: the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments (NJSLA). T...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair High School backslid on some of its academic assessments over the past two school years, and on its absenteeism rate. But its high school graduation rate has improved slightly. Those were some of the findings in the high school’s annual performance report, released by the state Department of Education on March 12. M...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair's schools will get an increase in state aid for the 2019-2020 school year, but it isn't much. The school district will receive $7,605,632 in aid this year, according to data posted on the New Jersey Department of Education's website...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news New Jersey schools are now required to teach the contributions of LGBTQ people in history as part of their curriculum. Senator Teresa Ruiz, one of the sponsors of the law, said it is important to teach diversity as a strength because perceptions are shaped in childhood...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news The Montclair school district paid tribute to 16 teachers and staff at last Wednesday evening’s board of education meeting. The staff members had all been selected to receive the Governor’s Educator of the Year Certificate of Recognition. “We hav...