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Newark parents push for independent interpreters after superintendent summarizes Spanish testimony
Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. Newark Latino families and labor organizers are asking the school district to require professional interpreters at every board meeting after they say Spanish-speaking parents’ public comments were incompletely interpreted at a recent meeting. Rafael Chavez, a community organizer with the New Labor advocacy organization, said in the absence of a qualified interpreter at last month’s school board meeting, superintendent Roger León stepped in to interpret some parents’ public comments. Chavez told Chalkbeat the issue of interpretation has come up repeatedly at previous Newark board meetings, including at the September meeting where he testified in Spanish without an interpreter. According to Chavez, León omitted portions of parents’ statements that Chavez said criticized how they and their children have been treated in district schools. In a review of the board video , Newark parents Sonia Pangul, Mayra Sanmartin, and Brenda Villatoro Villela can be heard testifying in Spanish about concerns regarding their children’s treatment in district schools and the lack of availability of music, sports, and
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Four-Year-Old Antuan Is First Through the Door at Linden's New Winfield Park Preschool
A four-year-old named Antuan stepped off the Villani school bus at 8 a.m. and became the first student to walk into Linden's newest school building, a five-classroom facility in Winfield Park where construction work and final approvals were still underway. Principal Frank Minniti met him at the door and walked him into the newly renovated building and into Mrs. Rodriguez's classroom, marking the long-awaited opening of the Dr. Rocco G. Tomazic Preschool Academy.
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Fourth-seeded Passaic Tech downs third-seeded Phillipsburg for second straight North 2, Group 5 crown
That’s how Passaic Tech’s 15th-year head coach Matt Demarest described Friday night’s North Jersey Section 2, Group 5 final between the fourth-seeded Bulldogs (9-3) and third-seeded Phillipsburg at Maloney Field. And he meant both teams. In a physical, twisting-and-turning slugfest, Passaic Tech outlasted the Stateliners (8-3) 21-10,...
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St. John’s University in central Minnesota sues New York school over ‘Johnnies’ nickname
St. John’s University in central Minnesota is suing a New York university of the same name for using its “Johnnies” nickname. The lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Minnesota says the private Catholic university in Collegeville has been calling its students and athletic teams Johnnies since at least 1900.
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Roslyn's Marching Bulldogs Finish Second in New York State, Scoring 93.825 in the Syracuse Dome
The Roslyn High School Marching Bulldogs came home from Syracuse this week as the second-place band in their division in New York State. At the New York State Field Band Conference Championship on Sunday, November 1, the band scored 93.825 in the Small School Division 1 class with its show, Confined, and picked up two caption awards along the way, for Music and for High General Effect.