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Paterson teacher retiring after 50 years of service
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, Ames’ students, along with district administrators and Paterson Mayor Andre […]
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.
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...
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...
New Jersey City University president testifies before lawmakers on school’s financial troubles
Without financial intervention, it is unlikely New Jersey City University will survive as a stand-alone institution, its fiscal monitor said. The post New Jersey City University president testifies before lawmakers on school’s financial troubles appeared first on New Jersey Monitor.
Class of 2024: Xaverian High School graduates 332 students, including 80 Staten Islanders
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Xaverian High School held its 64th commencement exercises honoring 332 graduating seniors, among them 80 Staten Islanders, including the valedictorian and salutatorian, on June 1 at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn. The ceremony began with an invocation by the Rev. Sean Suckiel, who serves as...
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...
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...
Exceptional Staten Island high school student, who already applies nursing skills in service to elderly, wins college scholarship
STATEN ISLAND, NY – A Curtis High School senior has won the The North Shore Rotary Community Service Scholarship Award, presented annually to a graduating senior, based on their community service efforts and educational aspirations. Jeremiah Bishop was recently presented an $8,000 college scholarship, which he will use at...
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.
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]...
Hasbrouck Heights 5th Grade Girls Travel Basketball Team Wins 2024 NWBP County Championship
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ - Hasbrouck Heights fifth grade girls travel basketball team defeated top seeded Waldwick to capture the 2024 North West Bergen Passaic (NWBP) League Championship, in a rematch from earlier in the season. The core of this group came into the 2024 season with a mission to get back to the championship game where they fell just short a year before as fourth graders, explained head coach Mike Davis. There were five new additions of first-time travel basketball players to the roster, meant there would be a learning curve as the team gelled.CLICK HERE TO...
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...
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