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New Jersey s Two Biggest School Districts Plan To Stay Remote Through April
arrow A coronavirus testing site in the Ironbound section of Newark. Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock
New Jersey’s two biggest cities are keeping their public schools on remote learning through at least April, at which time it will have been more than a year since their students set foot in a school building.
Newark will stay on remote learning until their spring break ends on April 12th, with the plan to return to hybrid learning afterwards, according to school officials. Jersey City will stay with remote learning until April 21st.
Elected BOE president at 23, Mussab Ali continues to makes history in Jersey City
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Posted Jan 06, 2021
Mussab Ali, 23, has been elected president of the Jersey City School Board. He was photographed at Dickinson High School on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)
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Four years ago, Mussab Ali won a historic race.
Twenty years old at the time, Ali won a seat on the Jersey City Board of Education by 68 votes in 2017 election, becoming both the first Muslim elected to public office in Jersey City and the youngest elected official in the city’s history.
On Tuesday night, the now 23-year-old Ali was elected school board president. He is thought to be the youngest BOE president in the city’s history.