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Paterson teacher retiring after 50 years of service
Editor’s Note: This video was published on Sept. 8, 2022. PATERSON, N.J. (PIX11) — Bessie Ames, a teacher in the Paterson School District since 1974, is retiring at the end of the school year after 50 years of service. Ames currently teaches third grade at School 10. Her last day is June 27th. On Monday, […]
N.J. Catholic school can’t be saved: School dating back to 1959 will close after fundraising effort
A long-shot fundraising drive to save a Catholic elementary school in Passaic County that is closing after 65 years is being called off, according to the organizer. Parents were stunned in mid-May when church officials announced that Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Wayne, which opened in 1959, would shut down at the conclusion of the 2023-24 school year.
NYC seventh-grader demands DOE boss to drop bizarre schedule
Hey, teacher, leave them kids at home! A 12-year-old Brooklyn student is leading the charge in demanding the city Department of Education drop a bizarre scheduling plan that requires students to show up for a one-day school week before Christmas break. Isaac Regnier, a seventh-grader at IS 96 in Bensonhurst, started an online petition drive two weeks ago that has already garnered over 6,400 signatures calling on Chancellor David Banks to “Fix the NYC Schools Calendar.” Isaac’s ingenious plan: cancel class on Monday, Dec. 23 – the day before winter break begins – and make it up by extending the academic year...
After 5 weeks, Pro-Palestinian encampment at N.J. university is broken up without arrests
Organizers of a pro-Palestinian protest on the Rutgers-Newark campus have dismantled what university officials called a “small and sparsely occupied encampment” that began more than five weeks ago. Rutgers University police officers and facilities workers watched protesters pack up their belongings in an “orderly and peaceful” breakdown of...
Paterson schools private security costs will top $10 million in the new school year
PATERSON — The school district’s spending on private security guards will break the $10 million mark in 2024-25, an increase that comes as teachers’ union leaders allege incidents of violence are being swept under the rug. The proposed $10.14 million contract with Allied Universal Security Services of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania would require the district...
Head of NYC’s elite Collegiate School resigns weeks after being accused of ripping antisemitism task force as a ‘joke’
The head of Manhattan’s elite Collegiate School has resigned from his role — just weeks after he was accused of ripping an antisemitism task force as a “joke” and a “power play by Jewish families” to have him ousted. David Lourie, who has been the posh prep school’s top administrator since 2020, broke the news to parents and students on Monday, telling them he was stepping down to give Collegiate a “fresh start.” His sudden departure from the $63,400-per-year school comes after a long-running antisemitism spat involving parents, administrators and students recently reached a tipping point and dramatically emerged into public...
Commissioners Evans and Petracco Weigh in On Nutley School Finance Crisis
NUTLEY, NJ - The Township of Nutley discussed a variety of topics at their recent commissioners meeting on June 6, 2024, ranging from support for the LGBTIQ+ community to Gun Violence Awareness Day, as well as one of the township’s hardest hitting topics - the Nutley Board of Education and its $7 million shortfall. Previously reported by TAPinto, the Nutley BOE announced on April 17, 2024, that they were facing an audit of finances, revealing a whopping $7 million shortfall. An independent investigation conducted in February 2024 by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE), District Auditor’s Lerch, Vinci & Bliss, as well...
70% of Newark Teachers Union Members Say ‘Yes’ to New Contract
NEWARK — The Newark Teachers Union’s membership has ratified a new contract that, if approved by the school board, will bring raises averaging 4.5% annually over its five-year term. The school board is anticipated to vote on the contract at its June school board meeting, district spokesperson Nancy Deering said on Monday.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER The union reported last week that 1,331 members representing 69.6% voted in favor of the contract, and 582 members representing 30.4% voted against the contract’s approval for a total of 1,913 votes. “NTU members voted overwhelmingly to approve...
Union City High School Celebrates 15 Year Anniversary
It was a special day for Union City High School on Saturday afternoon, as the Board of Education and local community celebrated the school’s 15th anniversary with an outdoor festival. Located on Kennedy Boulevard on the former site of the old Roosevelt Stadium, the high school was born out...
Antisemitic hate thrives at NYC’s most prestigious public high schools Brooklyn Tech, Stuyvesant, and Bronx Science
Antisemitic hate is thriving in some of the city’s most elite public high schools. At Brooklyn Tech, Stuyvesant and Bronx Science — three of the city’s nine specialized high schools — students have been tormented by peers giving Nazi salutes and accusing them of being part of a “genocide” of Palestinians, while school administrators and teachers also spew pro-Palestine propaganda, according to students and evidence obtained by The Post. Last week, Stuyvesant’s business manager Dina Ingram blasted out an email containing an anti-Israel protest guide from a George Soros-funded nonprofit to the entire school community “on behalf of Principal [Seung]...
Ridgewood High School Student Wins National Merit Scholarship
RIDGEWOOD, NJ — Ridgewood High School's Nathan Y. Kotchkin has been named one of the 2,900 awardees of the 2024 National Merit Scholarships, which provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship. Nathan is receiving his award from Tulsa, where he's expected to study chemistry. To be considered for this award, he had to take the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test to be named as a semifinalist. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER Next, semifinalists had to advance to the finals by fulfilling additional requirements – each student was asked to submit a detailed scholarship application, which included writing an essay and providing information about extracurricular activities, awards, and leadership positions. Semifinalists also had to have an outstanding academic record and an endorsement from a high school official. Read more Education news from around Ridgewood: Board of Education Reaches Contract Agreement with Ridgewood Education Association Ridgewood Public Schools Celebrate 2024 Teachers of the Year Students from Ridgewood Graduate from College of the Holy Cross For more local news, visit TAPinto.net
Top Paterson school execs get 3% raises and principals get new pay hikes for 5 years
PATERSON — Nine top-level administrators at Paterson Public Schools will be getting 3% annual pay increases on July 1, according to a school board personnel report. Meanwhile, the district has settled its labor contract with Paterson’s school principals in a deal that provides for pay hikes in each of five years. ...
Newark’s decline and the state’s neglect | Editorial
After more than a decade of sturdy improvements in Newark schools, we are now seeing a tragic reversal of that trend. Test scores have collapsed under Gov. Phil Murphy: More than 80 percent of district third graders can’t read on grade level. At five district schools, just one third...
NYC doesn’t have safety agents at more than half its pre-K centers: ‘Nobody at the door’
Despite the city Department of Education’s mantra that “safety is our highest priority,” the city fails to provide safety officers to guard all the youngsters in its pre-K programs, The Post has learned. The city contracts with some 1,300 community-based organizations, or CBOs, to run classes for roughly 63,000 three- and 4-year-olds — about 60% of all preschoolers in the DOE. But the city does not assign NYPD school safety agents to those contracted programs, leaving its littlest and most vulnerable students unprotected. “There’s a bunch of babies – and nobody at the door,” Brieann Duberry, a pre-K staffer and mom, told The Post. The...
North Bergen 5th Grader Wins National Kindness Speech Competition
5th grader Warren Pinnawalage studies at John F. Kennedy Elementary (STEM/STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) School in North Bergen. Warren was born in New York. His parents came to the United States from Sri Lanka. His father is Dr. Ron, a civil engineer, and his mother is Dr. Sugi, a licensed psychotherapist. Warren is a boy scout and can speak Sinhala, the official Sri Lankan language. Warren has received many accolades in his young life, the most recent being winning the 5th annual, National Kindness Speech Contest.
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