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TRENTON — Among the bills that could reach Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk Thursday is one requiring school districts to include instruction on diversity and inclusion in elementary schools. If the committee hearing on the bill, A4454/S2781, is any indication, there could be some contentious debate. Social conservatives say they’re concerned because the bill includes instruction related to sexual orientation, along with gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, religious beliefs and economic status. “This program is basically instructing our youth on how to become transgender and/or homosexua...

By RAY LESNIAK & MICHAEL PATRICK CARROLL December 11, 2020 at 7:25 PM Credits: Photo archive Credits: Photo Archive Credits: Photo Archive December 11, 2020 at 7:25 PM New Jersey is one of the most ethnically and racially diverse states in the nation; and yet we are also one of the more racially segregated states.  State Senator Dick Codey (D-27) sponsored S-2781, which requires school districts to provide instruction on diversity and inclusion as part of the implementation of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education for students in grades 9 ...

Fresh off the enactment of a ban on single-use plastic and paper bags taking effect in 2022, state lawmakers are now advancing plans to up the recycled content in plastics such as drink bottles – and along with it, ban packing peanuts. The bill has gotten multiple hearings in the Senate Environment and Energy Committee, which finally voted to advance a substitute version of it Thursday. State Sen. Bob Smith, D-Middlesex, said negotiations will continue over a half-dozen areas of disagreement. “I think the overall testimony, at least as I heard it, was generally good step in the right dire...