Winslow Township School District
The October 14 agenda proposes approving teacher ambassadors to help K–12 educators implement the district’s new English language arts program.
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Millburn Township Public Schools
The Board approved new and revised curriculum for the 2026–27 school year, including Advanced Robotics, multiple AP and dual-enrollment offerings, revised ELA, math, science, social studies, world-language, STEAM, and other courses across K–12.
Orange Public Schools opened Orange Horizon, a new therapeutic center at Scholars Academy, for K–6 students returning from out-of-district placements. The program brings specialized support into the district, including clinicians and mental-health staff; no after-school program was planned at launch.
Pemberton Township School District
From September 2026 the district's English language arts curriculum in kindergarten through grade five is Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts. The superintendent described it as combining explicit phonics-based foundational skills with knowledge-building content in history, science and literature, and said the aim is to close achievement gaps by building background knowledge in the primary grades.
The Board's summer 2026 curriculum writing approval list includes new courses (AP Precalculus, AP Business and Personal Finance, Personal Finance and Career Management, Intro to Business and Marketing, Work-Based Learning) alongside revisions/rewrites to numerous existing math, science, ELA, business, world language, and visual/performing arts courses.
The Board approved its District Improvement Plan after the June 2026 New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum review found the district’s Instruction and Program area at 77%, below the 80% minimum threshold.
Winslow Township School District
On August 12, 2026 the board accepted an artificial intelligence literacy programme for its high school, sponsored by a technology company and delivered through an outside learning platform at no cost to the district, for up to 1,300 students and staff from August 14, 2026 to August 13, 2027. Separately, the curriculum management software the district renewed for 2026-27 at $36,592.50 includes a $5,000 option described as artificial intelligence curriculum for kindergarten to grade 12. The district has adopted no policy on student use of generative artificial intelligence; none appears in any of the policy readings collected for this page, including the complete recodification of the policy manual on September 23, 2026.
On August 12, 2026 the superintendent announced the district's new five-year strategic plan, Optimal Success: Forward by Design, running from 2026 to 2031. It replaces Moving Into Greatness, which ended with the 2025-2026 school year. The plan was built from community roundtable discussions held at Orange High School through the spring, with a final session on June 18, 2026, and the district's 2026-2027 goals were posted for public review at the same time.
Trenton Public School District
On June 29, 2026 the board approved a resolution refusing funds from the state for the Perkins Secondary Consolidated Grant for fiscal year 2027, the federal programme that pays for career and technical education. At the same meeting it accepted other federal money: $4,565,836 under IDEA, $10,276,754 in Title I and $1,035,050 in Title III. The minutes give no reason for declining Perkins.
The board approved planning and opening the Johnnie L. Cochran Academy Gifted and Talented Program for the 2026–27 school year. The minutes authorize the principal to receive up to $5,000 for planning and opening work in July and August 2026.
Middletown Township Public School District
The district selected Amplify Desmos as a single kindergarten-to-grade-five mathematics programme, replacing the separate programmes previously used in the lower and upper elementary grades. Teachers were trained on June 2, 2026 and administrators confirmed the launch at the June 23, 2026 meeting for the 2026-27 school year. The district is also looking at replacing the screening tool it uses to check elementary mathematics progress.
Hillsborough Township Public School District
Hillsborough High School is planning to move from eight periods a day to a rotating drop schedule of six. The district told the board on June 22, 2026 that this raises daily instructional time by 16 percent, lengthens periods from about 50 minutes, and lets a student earn up to 160 credits over four years instead of 140, which is one extra full-year course or two half-year courses each year. It also creates an access period shared by every student at lunch, so clubs and extra help can meet during the school day. Staff visited Ridge High School in December 2025 to see the model working, and two Hillsborough students presented in favour of it.
Hillsborough Township Public School District
On June 22, 2026 the board voted down a $25,000 long-term professional development plan with Living Yes LLC. The plan came out of stay interviews in which staff asked to present their own training, and would have trained administrators, brought in a keynote speaker and built staff presenter cohorts over six months. Members objected that the vendor's standard contract listed topics that 'may include' equity, implicit bias and restorative practices, which one member called controversial, and that the contract came before a detailed scope. The superintendent replied that the contract was below the bidding threshold and he had brought it to the board precisely for transparency, and that he had offered to have the presenter attend a committee meeting. Five teachers and the education association spoke against the rejection.
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