Gov. Phil Murphy mandates teaching cursive writing in NJ schools as one of his last acts
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New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next fall.
New York education officials don’t currently mandate cursive to be taught. It is instead optional for individual districts.
But legislation proposed by state Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton, a Democrat who represents parts of Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York City, would make it a requirement, although that bill has gained little traction in the past decade, it’s been floating around Albany.
“The notion that a pupil could graduate from twelve years of education without knowing how to sign his or her name in cursive is unacceptable,” according to her proposal.
“This bill would require that this fundamental building block of our children’s education be removed from schools simply because they are not required as part of any of the numerous standardized tests students are subjected to.”
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