schooling in a pandemic

Back-to-school shoppers will get a break on New Jersey’s sales tax later this summer. Gov. Phil Murphy and fellow Democrats in the Legislature announced an agreement on Wednesday to implement a short sales tax holiday.

New Jersey students who test positive for COVID-19 or are exposed to someone who is infected with the virus will be able to return to the classroom faster under new guidelines that cut the required quarantine period down to five days.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says the state’s mandate for masks as a COVID-19 precaution in schools and daycares will remain in effect despite a looming expiration of the requirement.

Top pediatric experts in the Philadelphia region say everyone in schools this fall should wear masks and practice social distancing as the Delta variant is causing COVID cases to rise. Here is what they believe in-school learning should look like this fall.

New Jersey schools are set to return in the fall with a big change: masks will not be mandatory. NBC10 Philadelphia’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports on masks still being required on public school buses.

Another side effect of COVID-19, the School District of Philadelphia will see an uptick in students enrolling in summer school this year. Nearly 15,000 students have already signed up to make up for lost learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an increase from the 9,300 students that signed up last year.

An investigation is underway after eight classmates at an elementary school in the Lower Merion School District as well as two family members who were fully vaccinated tested positive for COVID.

Students in Camden public schools won’t be returning to the classroom after spring break next week as originally planned.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says there should be no option for remote learning and all students should be back in person when the new school year starts in September.

Teachers, food workers, postal employees, clergy and several hundreds of thousands more people in New Jersey are being given access to doses of the coronavirus vaccine later this month.

With schools reopen for in-person, virtual and/or hybrid learning, New Jersey is now tracking coronavirus cases in school communities and reporting the first outbreaks of “in-school transmission.”