HB 127 would put in state law a requirement to test elementary students on their ability to write and read cursive. Existing state law does not require cursive writing, but State Board of Education ...

New Jersey students in the third, fourth and fifth grade will be required to learn cursive writing due to a bill signed by ...

Public schools must teach students how to write cursive legibly and become fluent in reading it, under a bill signed by Gov.

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A state law signed Monday ...

Elementary school teachers in New Jersey should be teaching cursive writing in 2026-27 thanks to a new law signed by Phil ...

A new initiative by Rep. April Connors (R-Kennewick) seeks to tackle a decline in cursive handwriting education in public ...

Research has shown that it helps children develop. But many parents say their kids aren’t learning cursive in school.

The bill requires cursive instruction for students in grades 2 through 5.

A second-grade class at Linton-Stockton Elementary school is receiving letters from people all over the world, allowing them ...

As one of his final acts, Gov. Phil Murphy paved the way for bringing cursive back ...

Students in New Jersey will soon learn cursive again, thanks to a new state law signed by the governor. Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday that requires school districts to teach cursive in third ...

Beginning in September, New Jersey public schools must begin teaching cursive writing to students in grades three to five. A bill signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday makes cursive instruction ...