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Bergen County District Suddenly Terminates Super, Hires New One With Double Doctorates
Ramapo-lndian Hills Regional High School has hired a new superintendent.In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, May 28, the RIH Board of Education voted 9-0 in favor of approving Dr. Ronnie Tarchichi's contract, which goes into effect July 1.The board also voted 7-0 with two abstentions to terminate t…
NYC teacher’s groups push anti-Israel walkout by hundreds of public school students
Hundreds of New York City kids walked out of school Friday and staged a pro-Palestinian protest that was promoted by several radical teacher groups. Some 350 students had descended on the Department of Education headquarters at the Tweed Courthouse in Lower Manhattan starting by 4 p.m.. They were seen waving signs on the front steps of the building calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and describing Israel’s military offensive on the region following the Oct. 7 terror attack as “genocide.” The walkout was organized by Teachers Unite and a handful of other groups, including NYC Educators for Palestine, the Palestine Youth Movement, Al-AWDA NY, Movement of MORE Rank-&-File Educators, and...
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine Graduates Poised to Help Fill Physicians Shortages Nationwide
NUTLEY, NJ - At a time hospitals and health systems nationwide continue to face staffing shortages, 102 medical students from Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (HMSOM) are saying “yes!’” to a career as a physician as they prepare to graduate June 6th and officially begin their medical careers in residency programs across the country. The medical students, whose experiences were uniquely shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, include 75 students who came from the 2020 cohort of the medical school and 27 who completed their education in three years.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER HMSOM...
12-year-old Long Island prodigy heading to college
FOX 5 NY's Jodi Goldberg brings us the story of 12-year-old Suborno Bari, who is heading off to become a student at New York University this fall, despite being quite a bit younger than is fellow incoming classmates.
Head of swanky NYC prep school accused of ripping antisemitism task force as ‘power play by Jewish families’
The head of a swanky Manhattan prep school allegedly ripped a newly created antisemitism task force as a “joke” and nothing more than a “power play by Jewish families” to have him ousted, according to a new lawsuit. Collegiate School’s top administrator, David Lourie, is accused of deriding the task force after it was set up by the school’s board of trustees to weed out any potential antisemitism on the Upper West Side campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks, papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court allege. The claims were laid bare in a wide-ranging gender...
Jersey City School District Audit Reveals Serious Financial Issues
JERSEY CITY, NJ - Although there was no smoking gun nor signs of misappropriation of funds, the yearly audit of the Jersey City School District showed serious issues concerning how the school district keeps track of financial obligations, officials revealed. The 319-page financial audit for the school year ending in June 2023 largely revealed sloppy bookkeeping practices that need to be corrected, and other issues that need to be better monitored.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER Financial documents that should have been signed off by high level members of the administration and the school board...
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine graduates 120 new doctors at the Apollo
Sign up for our acclaimed free weekday newsletter Editorially Black. Get the top Racial Equity stories of the day from America’s most influential oldest continuously published Black newspaper, serving the nation’s largest Black and brown community. Sign up to stay connected. The Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM)...
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