The list of New Jersey school districts announcing plans to start the school year with all-remote learning instead of allowing students to return to the classroom due to the coronavirus pandemic continues to grow in the week that has passed since Gov. Phil Murphy gave educators that option.
The plans still need approval by the state Department of Education, but as of Thursday morning more than 85 school districts across the Garden State have told staff, students and parents they are seeking to postpone in-person classes for students to start the year.
Many school officials have scrambled to change their original plans and hold emergency board of education meetings, after the abrupt change by Murphy last week. He announced that districts that can provide a justifiable reason they can’t reopen safely, such as an inability to socially distance or building ventilation issues, may reopen with all-remote, but they must provide a plan to fix those issues and an expected date for a return to in-person classes.
“A reminder to all school districts that any resubmitted plans to begin the school year with all-remote learning must cite specific health and safety reasons for the ... change, which district leaders must certify to, as well as a timeline to get to in-person instruction,” Murphy said Wednesday at his regular COVID-19 briefing in Trenton.
State Department of Education officials told NJ Advance Media on Wednesday evening that 150 reopening plans submitted by the state’s roughly 580 districts have been approved, though the district names were not provided.
The Department of Education hasn’t approved remote-only plans from districts seeking to resubmit and make the switch. The state is still setting up a system for the resubmissions, officials told NJ Advance Media. Some of the 150 approved plans could be from districts that still plan to file a new remote-only proposal.
For schools that do return to in-person classes, state guidelines say if one or two students or teachers are diagnosed with the coronavirus in a New Jersey classroom, everyone he or she came close to at school could be asked to stay home for 14 days. If two people in different classrooms get sick, the entire school could be shut down.
The following districts have announced they’re seeking state approval to start with all-remote classes for the 2020-2021 school year. NJ Advance Media will add to the list as more districts announce their plans.
ATLANTIC COUNTY
- Egg Harbor Township (virtual starting Sept. 8; plan to start hybrid schedule Oct. 26)
- Pleasantville
BERGEN COUNTY
- Edgewater (For the month of September; district expects to reevaluate in the middle of September).
- Fair Lawn (through Oct. 19)
- Garfield (plan submitted to state Department of Education to start all-remote and transition to hybrid)
- Hackensack (schools plan to reopen Nov. 2)
- North Arlington (through Oct. 16)
- Ridgefield (through first marking period)
- Teaneck (through first marking period)
BURLINGTON COUNTY
- Burlington Township (through first marking period)
- Chesterfield (schools plan to reopen Oct. 19)
- Eastampton (through first marking period)
- Palmyra
- Pemberton Township (through at least Oct. 13)
- Westampton
- Willingboro (through Nov. 18)
CAMDEN COUNTY
- Camden (through Jan. 31)
- Collingswood/Oaklyn (through mid-October)
- Eastern Regional (return to school Oct. 5 )
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
- Commercial (through Oct. 13)
- Bridgeton (through Oct. 13)
- Downe Township (through Oct. 13)
- Millville (through Oct. 13)
- Upper Deerfield (fully remote through at least Oct. 12)
- Vineland (through Oct. 13)
ESSEX COUNTY
- Bloomfield (through September)
- East Orange (through September)
- Fairfield (through Nov. 2)
- Irvington
- Montclair (through September)
- Newark (through first marking period)
- Nutley (through first marking period)
- Orange (remote learning through Nov. 25; hybrid begins Nov. 29)
- South Orange-Maplewood (through first marking period)
- West Orange
GLOUCESTER COUNTY
- Delsea Regional
- Deptford (through Sept. 30)
HUDSON COUNTY
- Bayonne
- Guttenberg
- Harrison (through Nov. 13)
- Hudson County Schools of Technology (through Sept. 28)
- Jersey City
- Kearny
- North Bergen (through the end of September)
- Union City (for at least the month of September)
- West New York
HUNTERDON COUNTY
- Flemington-Raritan (through Oct. 30)
MERCER COUNTY
- Hamilton (through first marking period)
- Lawrence Township (not including pre-K, kindergarten and special-needs students)
- Mercer County Special Services
- Princeton Charter School
- Princeton Township public schools
- Trenton
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
- Dunellen
- Edison (at least until Oct. 16)
- Highland Park
- Middlesex Borough
- New Brunswick (first two marking periods)
- North Brunswick (first marking period)
- Old Bridge (until Oct. 12)
- Perth Amboy
- Piscataway
- South Brunswick
- South Plainfield
- South River (Plans for in-person on Oct. 1)
MONMOUTH COUNTY
- Asbury Park (first 30 days; return to school Sept. 8)
- Freehold Borough
- Freehold Township (first 2 weeks; return to school Sept. 21)
- Long Branch
- Manalapan-Englishtown (at least the first two weeks of school for some schools)
- Neptune Township
MORRIS COUNTY
- Boonton
- Dover (through first marking period)
- Montville (middle and high school students to start remote)
OCEAN COUNTY
- Lacey (remote to start, on Sept. 8, and then a hybrid model from Sept. 21)
- Plumsted
- Toms River (through first marking period)
PASSAIC COUNTY
- Passaic (through September)
- Paterson (through October)
SOMERSET COUNTY
- Franklin Township
- Hillsborough (virtual until Sept. 28, with plans to start hybrid option later)
- North Plainfield (virtual at least through the first marking period)
UNION COUNTY
- Elizabeth
- Hillside
- Linden
- Plainfield (through at least Nov. 1)
- Rahway
- Roselle (through first marking period)
- Roselle Park
- Scotch Plains-Fanwood
- Springfield (through Nov. 2)
- Union Township
Do you know of a school district that’s starting remotely? Send us an email at local@njadvancemedia.com.
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