‘Columbus Day’ will be back on the Rockaway Township School District’s calendar next school year after the board previously had voted to change its name this year. When the Rockaway Board of Education voted earlier this year to adopt its school calendar, Columbus Day was replaced with Indigenous People’s Day, but some of the board members did not know the name had been changed, according to a report by Pix11.

A motion was put forward to restore Columbus Day to the calendar during the September board meeting, but the vote was tied with one board member absent, the report stated. During Wednesday night’s meeting, all seven board members were in attendance and after one of them, Aaron Tomasini, made a motion to add it to the 2022-23 school calendar, the board voted 5-2 in favor of the motion. Tomasini originally voted against reinstating it at the September meeting.