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A New Jersey girl “struggled violently for her life” while being strangled by her wheelchair harness before losing consciousness and later dying.

Six-year-old Fajr Atiya Williams had a beautiful smile, loving nature and big, bright brown eyes.

The incident occurred Monday morning in New Jerseys Somerset County - and cops say the 27-year-old bus monitor on staff failed to notice the girl suffocate.

(FRANKLIN, N.J.) — A school bus monitor is facing charges after a 6-year-old girl with special needs died following an incident on a bus ride in New Jersey, prosecutors said. The child, who uses a wheelchair, was being transported on a school bus to an […]

The monitor was charged with second-degree manslaughter and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child.

The girl, who was unable to speak, was in a wheelchair at the back of the bus, and the monitor had her earbuds in. A New Jersey prosecutor charged the woman with manslaughter.

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Families are left to find new schools for their children after their charter schools plans to expand their high school grades were denied.

In what he characterized as a “family decision,” Franklin High School Principal Frank Chmiel will most likely leave his position to be the educational leader at Princeton High School. He will replace Jessica Baxter, who left the Princeton Public Schools district in January to become the principal of Randolph High School. Chmiel made the announcement in a 7 p.m. phone blast to high school families on Thursday, April 22. The move is not yet definite but is probable; Chmiel’s appointment as...