Four high school students on Long Island are making family history as the first in their families to go to college. And they're headed off to the Ivy League as well!
Less than 50 N.J. school districts remain all-remote in the last week of April
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
Posted Apr 28, 2021
Kindergarten teacher Christine Gappa, reads a book to the class at Irving School in Highland Park. Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media
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Less than 50 New Jersey school districts remain closed for in-person instruction, including half of the 10 largest, as the number of fully in-person districts continue to rise.
As of April 26, 470 school districts were hybrid, 47 were remote and 246 were fully in-person the fifth week in a row the number of in-person districts increased. Forty-eight districts have different educational formats for different schools.
At a young age, Kelly Garcia learned from her mother to be politically active
By the time School Committee Chair Kelly Garcia was elected to the Committee six years ago, she had already attended hundreds of hours of school-related meetings going back to when she was as young as 6.
That’s because her mother, Socorro Vega, was constantly fighting for educational rights in Chelsea while Boston University had control over the schools. They attended meeting after meeting – Garcia’s small hand in tow as her mother entered the library, a school or City Hall.
School Committee Chair Kelly Garcia (as a little girl) with her mother, Socorro Vega, protesting for better education resources in Bellingham Square many years ago. Garcia