Here’s a list of the current reopening plans for school districts across North Jersey – NorthJersey.com

Gov. Phil Murphy is leaving it largely up to New Jersey’s districts to decide how they reopen in the fall, saying there is no “one-size-fits-all plan.”

Most schools will be reopening their school buildings to students part-time using a hybrid model with some in-class instruction and some online. However, others may start the year fully remote after Murphy’s announcement Wednesday that he will allow certain districts to offer an all-remote option this fall if they can’t meet the state’s safety and health standards, such as keeping children at least six feet apart in classrooms.

Here’s what school districts around North Jersey are planning for this fall. We will continue to add and update this story as schools share or change their plans:

Bergen County

Garfield

The district will reopen with a hybrid schedule that will have half the students in school while the other half are learning remotely. There will be students on campus Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, but not on Wednesday.

The students who are in school will be there for four hours, with the start and end times staggered to avoid large gatherings, and the district will do what it it can to put siblings in the same cohorts where possible. The district has an enrollment of nearly 5,000 students.

Special education students will receive in-person instruction four times per week and will learn remotely on Wednesdays. More details about the plan here.

— Katie Sobko

Paramus

The district has split its reopening into two different phases: a transition phase and an “Orange Phase,” both on the hybrid model. During the transition phase, which will last four weeks, students will be split into two groups.

Schedules for the elementary, middle and high school during the transitional phase show two in-person days that consist of 4 hours and 20 minutes of in-person instruction, with additional virtual learning after students are dismissed. The other three days of the weeks consist of virtual learning.

During the Orange Phase, two more days of in-person learning are added to the week, and students will interact only with their cohorts. The duration of the Orange Phase will depend on health guidelines.

Schedules for the four in-person days will average around two hours and a half of in-person instruction and three hours and 15 minutes of virtual learning after dismissal. Wednesdays would be a fully virtual day.

— Stephanie Noda

Pascack Valley Regional School District

Pascack Valley Regional High School District is moving ahead with plans to reopen using a hybrid model that combines in-person and remote instruction.

Students will have eight scheduled periods, with six meeting a day. Four periods will take place in the morning between 8 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Two periods will take place via remote learning in the afternoon. Full story here.

— Shaylah Brown

River Dell Regional School District

The regional district, which serves students from River Edge and Oradel from seventh through twelfth grades, has a reopening plan that would allow for 50% of the student body to be in a school building at a time.

The student body will be split into two groups based on last name, to ensure families with students in different grades will have similar schedules.

On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, one group will attend in-person classroom and the second group will participate in remote learning for four one-hour periods. The groups will alternate, allowing each student to get two days virtually and two days in person. On Wednesday, all students will have a full day of virtual learning.

There will be a maximum attendance of 438 to 630 students in the middle school and 702 to 984 students in the high school

— Stephanie Noda

Tenafly

Children in kindergarten and first grade are the only students who will attend school five days a week when the district opens Sept. 8 The numbers in these classes will be kept low to allow for social distancing, and each class will constitute a cohort.

Grades 2-8 will be hybrid, in two cohorts, with each in school for two days one week and three days the next. High school students will be split into two cohorts, and alternate days in school.

Any parent may select the full virtual option for a child.

Students on site will be joined by students at home participating via livestream during select portions of the class.

— Ricardo Kaulessar

Essex County

Millburn

The district’s proposal for elementary school students has them attending school five days a week, half of the day at school and the other half remotely. Middle schoolers and high schoolers will have half the students in the building each day, with a rotating A/B schedule and remote learning on Wednesdays.

The start times for both schools have also been adjusted. Get the full details here.

— Kaitlyn Kanzler

Newark

The governor’s announcement does not change Newark’s plans for in-person instruction this fall, said district spokeswoman Nancy Deering. The largest school district in the state, with nearly 40,000 students, will reopen on Sept. 8 with a mix of in-person and virtual learning.

Families have until Friday to decide whether they want to do all remote classes. The district is offering fully virtual, fully in-person and a mix of both learning options.

— Svetlana Shkolnikova

Nutley

The Nutley Public School District’s current draft is a hybrid system, with a combination of in-person learning depending on grade levels and programs and all virtual instruction on Wednesdays for elementary-level students. Older students will have rotating, in-person days Monday through Friday. Full story here.

— Kaitlyn Kanzler

Morris County

Here’s a roundup of reopening plans released by Morris County school districts.

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Passaic County

Clifton

Like many districts, the Clifton reopening committee is recommending shortened school days with staggered start times.

Elementary students will be returning to four shortened school days and one fully remote day, following a formal period-by-period schedule. Middle and high school students will follow an alternating A/B day hybrid schedule with two fully in-person shortened days, two online days which will include gym and other specialized coursework, and one fully remote day following a formal period-by-period schedule. More details here.

— Matthew Fagan

Passaic

Passaic is one of the few districts in New Jersey opting to keep its doors closed in September and will begin the year entirely remote. The reopening plan consists of four phases, intended to transition students and staff back to in-person, school-based instruction. Here’s a detailed breakdown of the phases.

— Matthew Fagan

Paterson

City schools would remain closed through the end of October, under a virtual learning plan approved by the Paterson Board of Education on Wednesday night. Paterson had been preparing a hybrid approach, but after the governor provided districts more flexibility in how to approach the restart of schools, the Paterson school board opted to go virtual at least until Nov. 1.

The board said it will review Paterson’s coronavirus data on Oct. 15 and decide when school buildings will reopen. Officials noted that the school board’s decision must get approval from the state education department. Read the full story here.

— Joe Malinconico

Wayne

Wayne’s 86-page plan, which provides a combination of in-person and online learning, cleaning protocols, and a call for mandatory masks and one-way hallways, was not backed by the Wayne Education Association, whose members said they favor remote teaching methods until the coronavirus pandemic has further abated. Here’s what the plan calls for.

— Philip DeVencentis

West Milford

West Milford is abandoning the countywide trend of keeping schools closed each Wednesday this fall. The district has split the students in each of its schools into two groups that attend schools for half days two to three days a week. Get the full schedule and plan here.

— David Zimmer