The use of locking pouches to hold students' cell phones during school hours has been upsetting to some. The pouches were already rolled out pre-pandemic in other NJ schools.
South Orange-Maplewood school officials filed a bias complaint, after a high school athlete was briefly kept from playing due to her hairstyle. It's a style protected from racial discrimination by state law.
Felicia LoAlbo-Melendez was 11 when she died, days after being found unresponsive in a middle school bathroom. Her mother says the Mount Holly school failed to step in amid a pattern of bullying.