The move comes after the Middletown Township, Marlboro Township and Manalapan-Englishtown Regional Boards of Education adopted or amended school policies requiring staff to notify parents when gender-nonconforming students wish to change their names or be called by new pronouns.

Assuring the community that the Colchester School District is spending money wisely—and carefully—has been one of Superintendent Amy Minor's top priorities from the day she took office.

While many of these efforts proved to have little impact on their district's policies, they succeeded in sparking conversation and raising awareness for a historically underrepresented student group.

The gap between California charter and district schools in reading achievement has widened since the first report 14 years ago by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University. There has been steady progress in math as well.