School Districts to Assess How Strong a Start They've Made With Anti-Bullying

While many New Jerseyans are transfixed by the latest case of bullying at Rutgers University, public schools across the state are being asked to assess how well they've done implementing the new Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights (ABR).

Sadly, that landmark legislation was enacted partly in response to another bullying incident at Rutgers: The suicide of Tyler Clementi, who killed himself after his roommate posted a video online of Clementi's intimate encounter with another man.

In order to gauge their success putting ABR in place, schools will work with a monitoring process to evaluate all the facets of the legislation, from the prevention programs for students to the staffing in the schools to the actual numbers of incidents of bullying -- proven and otherwise.

The process is just getting underway. The state Department of Education alerted districts last month about some of the measures that will be used and ratings ultimately derived.

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