While state officials continue to monitor the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and tweak policies accordingly, it’s become a bit of an unnerving task for school administrators to constantly be aware of changing Department of Education protocols as they relate to opening school buildings in about a month.

At St. Mary Academy in Manahawkin, Principal Lizanne Coyne has shared in such frustration with other local school administrators, and last week was forced to alter the Catholic school’s opening…