With less than three weeks of school left in most districts, only one public New Jersey school district remains on entirely virtual instruction.
The Passaic City School District is the last public remote district, after the Paterson school district welcomed a limited number of children back this week, switching their designation to “combination.” Passaic City is expecting to hold in-person summer school at the conclusion of the regular school year.
As of June 7, state figures show 359 school districts were in hybrid instruction, seven were remote and 405 were fully in-person — the eleventh week in a row the number of in-person districts increased. Forty-two districts have different educational formats for individual schools.
During the peak of New Jersey’s second coronavirus wave in January, 339 districts were totally virtual. This is the first week more than 400 districts, including charter and approved special services schools, have been open for in-person learning.
The rates of increase for in-person schooling have begun to slow as districts enter their final weeks of school. There are two more in-person districts this week than last, while three weeks ago that number increased by 50.
Although the number of virtual districts has been steadily decreasing, one public school, two charter schools, and two special service schools remain totally remote.
“We know there are myriad reasons why the remaining districts have not taken this step,” Gov. Phil Murphy said at a press conference earlier this month when 13 districts remained remote. “But the simple fact remains that we cannot leave 43,000 of our students out of their classrooms for an entire year. That is not fair to them, their families, their communities, or their futures.”
Murphy has repeatedly called for all districts to reopen for either hybrid or in-person learning, announcing in March that some schools could relax social distancing measures.
The number of students being offered each educational type does not take into account students who are voluntarily learning virtually, an option all schools must provide. When Newark, the state’s largest school district, reopened for hybrid learning, just 39% of its 36,460 students returned to classrooms.
State officials have said that as of October 2020, the most recently available data, about a quarter of students in a district with open schools were voluntarily learning virtually.
The option to learn virtually will be rescinded in the fall, and reserved only for students and teachers with medical concerns, Murphy said. Whether masks are required is now regulated by local districts, Murphy said at a Wednesday press conference.
There have been 281 outbreaks and 1,263 cases of the coronavirus linked to schools in New Jersey. For cases to qualify as an outbreak, they must be confirmed to have been transmitted in the classroom or during academic activities. All 21 counties have seen an in-school outbreak.
All New Jersey residents 12 and older are currently eligible for the vaccine, and Pfizer will likely seek authorization for younger children this fall. Over 321,000 children between 12-17 have received at least one dose of a vaccine.
The five districts that have been remote the entire year are:
- Englewood on the Palisades Charter School: Charter
- Gray Charter School: Charter
- St. Joseph’s School For The Blind: Special services school district
- Passaic City School District: Public District
- Paterson Public School District: Public District
- Matheny School and Hospital: Special services school district
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